SRI LANKAN SNUFF PORN
August 27, 2009
by VBS Staff
VBS News
Disclaimer: This video contains footage that will decidedly ruin the rest of your day. Please don’t watch it if you bum easily.
When we were putting together our special on the last days of the Tamil Tigers back in Spring, we started getting a teensy bit nervous that all the footage we’d been given and which the Sri Lankan government had decried as staged propaganda was exactly that. Well, not the “staged” part—it’s pretty hard to fake a blown-off arm on a Tamil farmer’s salary—but overly slanted. The whole idea of “objective reporting” goes out the window when you ban all journalists from the country and make illegally embedding yourself with the guerillas the only option for coverage, but what we were worried about was the possibility that what we were planning to run had been recontextualized by some Dennis Hopper type. All the video we were receiving showed the aftermath of mortar attacks on Tamil villages, but aside from the “swearsies” of the person who smuggled them out of the country, there were no clear indicators which side had done all the mortarin’, you dig?
We ended up going with our gut and running the footage, but there was always a niggling little doubt in our mind about whether or not we’d been taken in. Seeing shit like this come out, however, makes us glad we didn’t pussy out.
BYE BYE DUBAI
August 18, 2009
by VBS Staff
VBS News
Not to get too schadenfreudey about the whole deal, (especially considering where we live and what it’s becoming) but watching a monstropolis built on credit, slave labor, stolen sand, Dickensien debtor’s laws, and the oil riches of complete fucking assholes turn into the City of Brass is pretty satisfying. It feels a little odd to give “Victorville”: a leg-up on anywhere, but at least its acres of abandoned McMansions have sewers.
QUITTIN' TIME
May 18, 2009
by VBS Staff
VBS News
Over the weekend the last remainder of the Tamil Tigers decided to call it a day and offer their surrender to the Sri Lankan forces that have had them pinned down in a tiny ‘safety zone’ for the past couple months. Never one to turn down a chance to look like total dicks, the Sri Lankan Army responded by descending on the Tigers and killing as many as possible before the government finally called ‘time’. Evidently they even managed to take out the Tigers’ secretive, roly-poly, mustachioed uncle of a leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, but so far nobody has found his body (not even his nose) and it remains to be seen whether or not he has actually made his last batch of donuts. The fact that outside reporters are still barred from anywhere near the fighting hasn’t helped.
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