I guess Kosovo was not generous enough with those women to provide as many shoes as they needed.

You can't blame someone for wanting more out of life while functioning inside a competitive system. What those people where doing was illegal but smart if you take into account that everyone else was doing the exact same thing.

Those who dont loot are going to be the ones who end up with nothing tomorow. Dont you agree?

This is why capitalism/communism fail humanity and this is why people should read more about a resource based economy.

We're not quite to the point where we're breaking stories ahead of traditional news media in our area (Chicago and Northwest Indiana), but we have had several submissions that were able to go much deeper into local news events and capture more of the human emotion behind them.

These kinds of technologies have the power to increase transparency in our everyday lives and create media spaces that promote real democracy. The comments here are telling: we're able to have more informed opinions about events that are halfway across the world because we can see events that are captured and shared by average citizens. A traditional newscast on the same subject would not be nearly as powerful, and that newscast certainly wouldn't allow a community to create media-based responses.

I don't think looting is "neat," either. I do think that a localized event like that making it into all of our living rooms direct from an observer without an intermediary beyond YouTube is amazing.

@Mooncake:

This situation is even dumber. Kosovo declared itself free from Serbia. These are Serbs in Belgrade (the capital of Serbia) ostensibly angry about Kosovo splitting off from them - and to show their grief that are looting from Serb stores. Lame.

I get what your point is, though. It is indeed NEAT that people can be more interested in world affairs than in watching a couple screw on a dead bear or some teen angster ranting about Britney or some such nonsense.