mia born free

M.I.A's new video for their track "Born Free" was pulled from youtube immediately after release this morning because of it's graphical violence including scenes of a child being shot in the head and another child being killed by land mine.

Directed by Roman Gavras, the nine-minute MIA Born Free video was released on Monday and will be available for download at midnight from MIAuk.com. The video for the title song from MIA’s third album – due for release on June 28 – is already sparking controversy for its violent content.

As "Born Free" — M.I.A.'s take on Suicide's classic "Ghost Rider" — pounds in the background like an aural assault, the video depicts a SWAT unit tearing apart an apartment complex and beating its tenants in search of an unknown perpetrator, who turns out to be a redheaded young man. Masked, heavily armed military men force him into a truck holding more redheads and drive them to a remote desert holding station, where they proceed to murder the outcasts.

noah's ark

A team of archaeologists on Mount Ararat claim to have discovered what they believe to be the fossilised remains of Noah's Ark. Carbon dating puts the vessel at nearly 5000 years old which matches the Bible version of events.

"It's not 100 percent that it is Noah's Ark but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it," Yeung Wing-cheung, a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker and member of the 15-strong team from Noah's Ark Ministries International told Agence France-Presse.

According to the report which provided no photos and few details, the team says it recovered wooden specimens from a structure on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey at an altitude of 13,000 feet, and that carbon dating suggested it was 4,800 years old.

Yeung indicated there were several compartments inside, some with wooden beams, that could have housed animals.