- Natsumi Sumikawa goes for the pin on Misa Matsui. Misa tries to reach for the ropes at 2 but Natsumi pushes her arm right back down. Misa panics and desperately kicks out with her other shoulder. Natsumi: "One of my pleasures is to introduce this kind of realism against experienced opponents." https://twitter.com/Himanshu_Doi/status/1715027830927663601?s=20 3 comments squaredcircle
- Esper Warned Armed Forces Against Being Coopted By Trump Desperate To Retain Power https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/esper-warned-armed-forces-against-being-coopted-by-trump-desperate-to-retain-power 14 comments politics
- Taliban gains drive Afghanistan gov’t to arm local volunteers Desperate government launches ‘National Mobilisation’, which aims to arm local volunteers and resurrect militia groups to take on Taliban. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/25/taliban-gains-drive-afghan-government-to-recruit-militias 17 comments worldnews
- America’s former defence secretaries sound the alarm over Trump | The president’s desperate effort to overturn the election raises fears that he will try to suborn the armed forces https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/01/04/americas-former-defence-secretaries-sound-the-alarm-over-trump 9 comments politics
- Marc Gasol is working with NGO Open Arms to help rescue desperate inmigrants who try to cross the Mediterraneum sea https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/07/17/album/1531843926_467803.html#foto_gal_3 40 comments nba
- ‘Grannies with Kalashnikovs’: Elderly Kurdish women are taking up arms in a desperate last bid to prevent their town falling into the hands of ISIS. https://hromedia.com/2014/10/06/grannies-with-kalashnikovs-last-line-of-kurdish-defence-for-besieged-kobane-town/ 11 comments worldnews
- This Looks Like the Beginning of a Civil War. Some of the participants are police and some are vigilantes. They are armed and desperate for enemies. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/08/27/looks-beginning-civil-war?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=iwar19ejhuj4ssr6fcpazpem_dlyski9jhjhlstjm3czubylr9xy9siekahfc 33 comments politics
- NSA’s Desperation for Secrecy Leads to Stupidity, Alienating the Hacker Community: ‘Freedom Downtime’, a Call to Arms http://chycho.blogspot.ca/2014/03/nsas-desperation-for-secrecy-leads-to.html 4 comments privacy
- Desperate Intel goes anti-competitive: tries to pay its way into the tablet market and kick out ARM chip makers http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245530/how_intel_is_buying_a_piece_of_the_tablet_market 12 comments worldnews
- SemiAnalysis: "Is Arm Desperate? Qualcomm Claps Back At Arm's Potentially Frivolous Lawsuit" https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/is-arm-desperate-qualcomm-claps-back 33 comments hardware
- Belarus ARMS migrants: Troops give tear gas to desperate refugees, tear down fences and try to blind Polish soldiers with lasers in new escalation of border warfare https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10197977/Belarusian-troops-tear-Poland-border-fence-target-Polish-troops-lasers-strobe-lights.html 97 comments worldnews
- Mexican villages arm children in desperate bid for attention https://apnews.com/article/world-news-mexico-police-ddb119a12aaa41cfc4b455426edada7c 4 comments worldnews
- Extraordinary moment that desperate Palestinian women fought and BIT an Israeli soldier after he put boy with a broken arm in a headlock at gunpoint. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3214441/remarkable-moment-young-girl-bites-israeli-soldier-two-women-overpower-puts-palestinian-boy-broken-arm-headlock-gunpoint-clashes-west-bank.html 33 comments worldnews
- THE scourge of ISIS — a female Kurdish warrior who was credited with killing 100 jihadists — may have herself died in the desperate battle to prevent the city of Kobani falling into extremist hands. But her sisters-in-arms fight on. http://www.news.com.au/world/claims-famous-kurdish-peshmerga-fighter-rehana-may-have-been-decapitated/story-fndir2ev-1227103268843 19 comments worldnews
- 'Desperate' Putin may attack NATO base in bid to 'choke off' arms flow to Ukraine https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/desperate-putin-attack-nato-base-26732875 28 comments worldnews
- Exposed: How Pfizer Exploits Secretive Vaccine Contracts to Strong-Arm Governments: "Pfizer has used its monopoly on a lifesaving vaccine to extract concessions from desperate governments," said the report's author, urging action from the Biden administration. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/10/19/exposed-how-pfizer-exploits-secretive-vaccine-contracts-strong-arm-governments 4 comments politics
- Kurdish fighters hold off Islamic State, await more help from US, Baghdad: Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq are desperate for arms from Baghdad or even the U.S. to help fend off an onslaught from Islamic militants that may be aimed at creating a corridor for jihadist reinforcements from Turkey. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/08/12/kurdish-fighters-hold-islamic-state-await-more-help-from-us-baghdad/ 3 comments worldnews
- To save wildlife, and tourism, Kenyans take up arms. 'In a growing number of communities here, people are so eager, even desperate, to protect their wildlife that civilians with no military experience are banding together and risking their lives to confront heavily armed poaching gangs' http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/world/africa/to-save-wildlife-and-tourism-kenyans-take-up-arms.html?smid=re-share 626 comments worldnews
- Depleted by an American-backed offensive and seemingly desperate for new conscripts, the Lord’s Resistance Army, one of the most infamous armed groups in Africa, has killed hundreds of villagers in this remote corner of Congo and kidnapped hundreds more, marching them off in a vast human chain. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/world/africa/28congo.html?hp 8 comments worldnews