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Once this Alberta, Canada landscape was a pristine wilderness roamed by
deer now it's 'the most destructive industrial project on earth'
Once this Alberta, Canada landscape was a pristine wilderness roamed by deer now it's 'the most destructive industrial project on earth'
beforeitsnews.com
Development of the world’s third largest oil supply is proceeding rapidly. It already represents a $3.5 billion
( Out in the open air - your eyes burn and your nose and throat rebel as well to indescribable chemical offense. Headache is normal. )
Photos that are part of a story I did for the NRDC's Earth OnEarth Magazine http://www.onearth.org/
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Calling all musicians!
via an avid Occupier (slightly adapted):
"We Own the World" by MONSATAN-
'We kill the the world,
We kill your children.
We are the ones that make your poison food,
So just start eating.
There are people dying,
But we don 't really care.
IT 's true, we make a brighter day
But not for you, just me...'
Go into a studio and make a video. Put it on YouTube so these lyrics
will go all over the world. It will be shared many many times. Give this
wolf in sheep's clothing a face they deserve. I hope you understand the
impact and I also hope you know many more people that realise this.
Many people here don't even know about Monsanto even though they are all
over and connected to many universities.
I hope you are able and I wish you all the best.
~Erik
Who's up to finish writing the parody and making a recording?
Calling all musicians!
via an avid Occupier (slightly adapted):
"We Own the World" by MONSATAN-
'We kill the the world,
via an avid Occupier (slightly adapted):
"We Own the World" by MONSATAN-
'We kill the the world,
We kill your children.
We are the ones that make your poison food,
So just start eating.
There are people dying,
But we don 't really care.
IT 's true, we make a brighter day
But not for you, just me...'
Go into a studio and make a video. Put it on YouTube so these lyrics will go all over the world. It will be shared many many times. Give this wolf in sheep's clothing a face they deserve. I hope you understand the impact and I also hope you know many more people that realise this. Many people here don't even know about Monsanto even though they are all over and connected to many universities.
I hope you are able and I wish you all the best.
~Erik
Who's up to finish writing the parody and making a recording?
We are the ones that make your poison food,
So just start eating.
There are people dying,
But we don 't really care.
IT 's true, we make a brighter day
But not for you, just me...'
Go into a studio and make a video. Put it on YouTube so these lyrics will go all over the world. It will be shared many many times. Give this wolf in sheep's clothing a face they deserve. I hope you understand the impact and I also hope you know many more people that realise this. Many people here don't even know about Monsanto even though they are all over and connected to many universities.
I hope you are able and I wish you all the best.
~Erik
Who's up to finish writing the parody and making a recording?
Nearly
every state now has a “supermax” prison similar to the federal prison
at Florence, which former ADX Warden Robert Hood once called “a clean
version of hell.”
These prisons presage a dystopian world where disobedient citizens are seized, stripped of rights and broken psychologically. Law professor Laura Rovner and Theoharis—who is an outspoken advocate for her former student Fahad Hashmi, b
*Note: About this picture: A 12-year-old in his cell at the Harrison County Juvenile Detention Center in Biloxi, Mississippi. The window has been boarded up from the outside. The facility is operated by Mississippi Security Police, a private company. In 1982, a fire
killed 27 prisoners and an ensuing lawsuit against the authorities forced them to reduce their population to maintain an 8:1 inmate to staff ratio.
The U.S. locks up children at more than six times the rate of all other developed nations. http://uruknet.com/
These prisons presage a dystopian world where disobedient citizens are seized, stripped of rights and broken psychologically. Law professor Laura Rovner and Theoharis—who is an outspoken advocate for her former student Fahad Hashmi, b
eing
held in the Florence supermax—detailed the corrosion of justice within
federal courts in an article in the American University Law Review.
They noted that the distortion within the federal legal system “represents a particular way of seeing the Constitution, of constructing the landscape as a murky terrain of lurking enemies where rights must have substantial limits and the courts must be steadfast against such dangers.” The two professors went on to argue that while legal scholars and human rights advocates have examined the dangers of these paradigms in Guantanamo, they have generally failed to acknowledge that “the federal system is similarly infected by such paradigms.”
There are currently an estimated 25,000 prisoners imprisoned in supermax facilities. They are disproportionately Muslims and people of color.
The prisons are equipped with special housing units for those who do not show a proper deference to authority. These “H-units” hold prisoners under special administration measures, or SAMs. They live in cells of only 75 to 85 square feet. They endure almost complete social isolation and sensory deprivation as well as round-the-clock electronic surveillance. And it is in these units that even the most resilient are psychologically destroyed. http://bit.ly/PJ9wkC
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Torture: America’s Brutal Prisons
This programme shows that abuses like those documented in Abu Ghraib are commonplace in the USA’s overcrowded and understaffed prisons. Prisoners are shackled and hooded for their own protection; pepper spray is used as an alternative to physical force, but in sufficient quantities to cause second-degree burns; beatings are frequent and sometimes fatal. The programme suggests that the cause is not a few bad apples, but a pervasive culture of dehumanization and brutality. http://bit.ly/V9rO48
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Supermax: Guantanamo Down The Street
I was stunned at my complete ignorance about America’s prison system. The scenarios inmates experience and described can only be termed as Bosch-like horrors.
A brief Google search quickly provides a frightening glimpse into the inferno in which inmates live. The more sites one browses, the stronger the impression that much of the tortuous practices that occurred at Guantanamo and Abu-Ghraib were honed within the confines of America’s Borders.
What occurs in American prisons is, simply, a terrifying nightmare. http://
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That’s right; sodomy. Forcible anal penetration. The documentation of this and other forms of sexual humiliation is too extensive to be denied or pawned off on a couple of redneck privates. And we know now that sexual humiliation techniques were among those discussed and approved by the National Security Principals Committee, a White House group including Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, George Tenet, and John “History will not judge this kindly” Ashcroft.
I don’t want to come off as minimizing the horror of controlled drowning. It’s just that there’s something about forcible anal rape that brings the torture issue into sharp focus. Just once, I’d like to hear one of these American Enterprise Institute psychos, the ones that always trot out to defend the Neocons’ freakish obsessions, have to defend shoving a flashlight up a guy’s ass. I want to hear Frank Gaffney or Jonah Goldberg tell me why I shouldn’t be fucking mortified that raping prisoners was considered within tolerable interrogation practices by my country. I want Glenn Beck to justify butt-raping a suspect.
The next time I hear some idiot refer to Jack Bauer in defense of torture, I want to ask him what he thinks of Jack Bauer rogering terrorists with a broomstick. You’ve never seen that in the hours of not-so-subtle pro-torture TV drama we’ve seen since 2001, have you? Never saw Andy Sipowicz cornhole a skell on NYPD blue? Or Michael Chiklis on The Shield making a suspect drink his pee? Me neither. Something tells me that might have hurt their ratings. http://buffalobeast.com/
_____
Hungerstrike: Stopping Real Torture in America’s Prisons
Prisoners risking death by refusing food in the Pelican Bay supermax, and those hunger striking in solidarity in prisons around California are a judgment of our sickness. “The degree of civilization in a society,” said Dostoyevsky, “can be judged by entering its prisons.”
Civilization is something we no longer seem to aspire to. The United States locks up more people and a greater percentage of its people than anyone else. We lock them in training centers for anger and violence. We subject them to rape, assault, humiliation, and isolation. We throw the innocent in with the guilty, the young with the old, the nonviolent with the violent, the hopeful with those who’ve lost all interest in life.
And we routinely subject large numbers of prisoners to the torture of near-total isolation. We lock human beings in little boxes for 22 or 23 hours per day. When it’s done to an accused whistleblower like Bradley Manning, we protest. But what about when it’s done to thousands of people, many of them baselessly accused of being members of gangs? Where is the outrage? http://bit.ly/PpRoe6
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They noted that the distortion within the federal legal system “represents a particular way of seeing the Constitution, of constructing the landscape as a murky terrain of lurking enemies where rights must have substantial limits and the courts must be steadfast against such dangers.” The two professors went on to argue that while legal scholars and human rights advocates have examined the dangers of these paradigms in Guantanamo, they have generally failed to acknowledge that “the federal system is similarly infected by such paradigms.”
There are currently an estimated 25,000 prisoners imprisoned in supermax facilities. They are disproportionately Muslims and people of color.
The prisons are equipped with special housing units for those who do not show a proper deference to authority. These “H-units” hold prisoners under special administration measures, or SAMs. They live in cells of only 75 to 85 square feet. They endure almost complete social isolation and sensory deprivation as well as round-the-clock electronic surveillance. And it is in these units that even the most resilient are psychologically destroyed. http://bit.ly/PJ9wkC
________
Torture: America’s Brutal Prisons
This programme shows that abuses like those documented in Abu Ghraib are commonplace in the USA’s overcrowded and understaffed prisons. Prisoners are shackled and hooded for their own protection; pepper spray is used as an alternative to physical force, but in sufficient quantities to cause second-degree burns; beatings are frequent and sometimes fatal. The programme suggests that the cause is not a few bad apples, but a pervasive culture of dehumanization and brutality. http://bit.ly/V9rO48
_______
Supermax: Guantanamo Down The Street
I was stunned at my complete ignorance about America’s prison system. The scenarios inmates experience and described can only be termed as Bosch-like horrors.
A brief Google search quickly provides a frightening glimpse into the inferno in which inmates live. The more sites one browses, the stronger the impression that much of the tortuous practices that occurred at Guantanamo and Abu-Ghraib were honed within the confines of America’s Borders.
What occurs in American prisons is, simply, a terrifying nightmare. http://
_____
That’s right; sodomy. Forcible anal penetration. The documentation of this and other forms of sexual humiliation is too extensive to be denied or pawned off on a couple of redneck privates. And we know now that sexual humiliation techniques were among those discussed and approved by the National Security Principals Committee, a White House group including Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, George Tenet, and John “History will not judge this kindly” Ashcroft.
I don’t want to come off as minimizing the horror of controlled drowning. It’s just that there’s something about forcible anal rape that brings the torture issue into sharp focus. Just once, I’d like to hear one of these American Enterprise Institute psychos, the ones that always trot out to defend the Neocons’ freakish obsessions, have to defend shoving a flashlight up a guy’s ass. I want to hear Frank Gaffney or Jonah Goldberg tell me why I shouldn’t be fucking mortified that raping prisoners was considered within tolerable interrogation practices by my country. I want Glenn Beck to justify butt-raping a suspect.
The next time I hear some idiot refer to Jack Bauer in defense of torture, I want to ask him what he thinks of Jack Bauer rogering terrorists with a broomstick. You’ve never seen that in the hours of not-so-subtle pro-torture TV drama we’ve seen since 2001, have you? Never saw Andy Sipowicz cornhole a skell on NYPD blue? Or Michael Chiklis on The Shield making a suspect drink his pee? Me neither. Something tells me that might have hurt their ratings. http://buffalobeast.com/
_____
Hungerstrike: Stopping Real Torture in America’s Prisons
Prisoners risking death by refusing food in the Pelican Bay supermax, and those hunger striking in solidarity in prisons around California are a judgment of our sickness. “The degree of civilization in a society,” said Dostoyevsky, “can be judged by entering its prisons.”
Civilization is something we no longer seem to aspire to. The United States locks up more people and a greater percentage of its people than anyone else. We lock them in training centers for anger and violence. We subject them to rape, assault, humiliation, and isolation. We throw the innocent in with the guilty, the young with the old, the nonviolent with the violent, the hopeful with those who’ve lost all interest in life.
And we routinely subject large numbers of prisoners to the torture of near-total isolation. We lock human beings in little boxes for 22 or 23 hours per day. When it’s done to an accused whistleblower like Bradley Manning, we protest. But what about when it’s done to thousands of people, many of them baselessly accused of being members of gangs? Where is the outrage? http://bit.ly/PpRoe6
**************************
*Note: About this picture: A 12-year-old in his cell at the Harrison County Juvenile Detention Center in Biloxi, Mississippi. The window has been boarded up from the outside. The facility is operated by Mississippi Security Police, a private company. In 1982, a fire
killed 27 prisoners and an ensuing lawsuit against the authorities forced them to reduce their population to maintain an 8:1 inmate to staff ratio.
The U.S. locks up children at more than six times the rate of all other developed nations. http://uruknet.com/
@stopFBI on Twitter
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RT @uspcn: Continued harassment and repression of our community. This time in Boston. #stopfbi t.co/c1Sggc2m
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Continued harassment and repression of our community. This time in Boston. #stopfbi t.co/c1Sggc2m
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RT @OccupyWallStNYC: The same terrorist organization that haunted Martin Luther King Jr., is still terrorizing people today. #StopFBI #FBI t.co/RZOal6Rl
The Holy Land Five need our urgent solidarity. The U.S. Supreme Court will decide in late October whether their final appeal will even be heard. The Holy Land Five are five Muslim charity leaders wrongly imprisoned due to U.S. government political repression. They are being punished for publicly sending charity to Palestinians, at a time when U.S. domination is being challenged in the Middle East.
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