May 23, 2012

alecshao:

We Are Dorothy - Casualties of War, 2009

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May 4, 2012
US military-industrial giant KBR in bidding to privatize British police forces

anti-propaganda:

‘Giant US military-industrial company Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) is in the running to win a slice of a controversial £1.5 billion (US$2.43 billion) contract to transform the West Midlands and Surrey police forces in Britain, The (London) Times reported.

Hailed as the largest police privatization scheme in the UK, it has been suggested the private companies who win the contract will be tasked to perform several police functions — including patrols, detention and criminal investigation.

KBR, a former subsidiary of the Halliburton group, has attracted its share of criticism over the large contracts it won with the US government during the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The corporation also helped to build the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.’

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March 22, 2012

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March 14, 2012

Programmer under oath in open court admits computers rig elections

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March 11, 2012
peaceful-wanderer:

peaceful-wanderer:

(Source: glenscocoa)

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March 7, 2012
"‘More stringent security measures. Universal electronic surveillance. No-knock laws. Stop and frisk laws. Government inspection of first-class mail. Automatic fingerprinting, photographing, blood tests, and urinalysis of any person arrested before he is charged with a crime. A law making it unlawful to resist even unlawful arrest. Laws establishing detention camps for potential subversives. Gun control laws. Restrictions on travel. The assassinations, you see, establish the need for such laws in the public mind. Instead of realizing that there is a conspiracy, conducted by a handful of men, the people reason—or are manipulated into reasoning—that the entire population must have its freedom restricted in order to protect the leaders. The people agree that they themselves can’t be trusted."

— Robert Anton Wilson, The Eye in the Pyramid (via gravity-rainbow)

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March 5, 2012

Cornel West on Obama as Spectacle

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March 4, 2012
anti-teachings: “The 99 will be 100 when they know they’re 1.”

anti-teachings:

“The 99 will be 100 when they know they’re 1.”

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February 27, 2012
myadolescenceispersonified: Quick Facts about Guantánamo Bay: Approximate number of prisoners detained at Guantánamo since January 11,2002: 779 Number of detainees released due to insufficient reason to keep them: 600 Number of detainees who remain at Guantánamo as of February 2012: 171 Number of trials completed since it’s opening: 3 Age of the youngest Guantánamo prisoner: 13 Age of the oldest Guantánamo prisoner: 98 Number of suicide attempts in Guantánamo Bay since 2002: 23 Number of alleged suicides amongst Guantánamo prisoners since 2002: 6 Interrogation methods in Guantánamo include, but are not limited to: water-boarding, physical abuse, forced injections, sexual assault, sexual humiliation,  sleep deprivation, environmental manipulation, violent dogs, forced nudity, using phobias, extreme cold, cultural humiliation, sensory bombardment, stress positions, sensory deprivation, isolation, ect. In 2010, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (former aide to Secretary of State Colin Powell) stated that top U.S. officials, including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld, had known that the majority of the detainees initially sent to Guantánamo were innocent, but that the detainees had been kept there for reasons of “political expedience”, meaning their reasons were inclined towards domination rather than being fair or just.

myadolescenceispersonified:

Quick Facts about Guantánamo Bay:

  • Approximate number of prisoners detained at Guantánamo since January 11,2002: 779
  • Number of detainees released due to insufficient reason to keep them: 600
  • Number of detainees who remain at Guantánamo as of February 2012: 171
  • Number of trials completed since it’s opening: 3
  • Age of the youngest Guantánamo prisoner: 13
  • Age of the oldest Guantánamo prisoner: 98
  • Number of suicide attempts in Guantánamo Bay since 2002: 23
  • Number of alleged suicides amongst Guantánamo prisoners since 2002: 6
  • Interrogation methods in Guantánamo include, but are not limited to: water-boarding, physical abuse, forced injections, sexual assault, sexual humiliation,  sleep deprivation, environmental manipulation, violent dogs, forced nudity, using phobias, extreme cold, cultural humiliation, sensory bombardment, stress positions, sensory deprivation, isolation, ect.

In 2010, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (former aide to Secretary of State Colin Powell) stated that top U.S. officials, including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld, had known that the majority of the detainees initially sent to Guantánamo were innocent, but that the detainees had been kept there for reasons of “political expedience”, meaning their reasons were inclined towards domination rather than being fair or just.

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February 26, 2012

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