This one is going around Twitter.
Random News Article Discussion II
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This one is going around Twitter.I'm not surprised at that. The sad thing that this was from 1977 and 30 -nearly 40 - years later it still fits.
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By the way, in the long string of piece analyzing the latest horrible race cases has anyone seen a piece analyzing or wondering if there is any relation to the string of movies and cultural products that have a heavily salute or inclinations to heavy armed agencies/army/police at its core?
I mean, it's a gigantic stretch but if someone does it it would be interesting to read.
I'm not sure as to lately but there were quite a few things written about that in the '90s following the Rodney Kung trial. I seem to recall a few articles about a decade ago pointing out that law enforcement and military worship were a big part of fascism but those were widely and resoundingly condemned by the media. Seems likely any article analyzing those links now would get the same and would probably not be published by any large outlet as a result..
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I'm not sure as to lately but there were quite a few things written about that in the '90s following the Rodney Kung trial. I seem to recall a few articles about a decade ago pointing out that law enforcement and military worship were a big part of fascism but those were widely and resoundingly condemned by the media. Seems likely any article analyzing those links now would get the same and would probably not be published by any large outlet as a result..
I guess it will be right to Lotman and Barthes then b: Will try to read them when i have time.
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They made an identification of one of the students to have gone missing in the 43 missing students case. As I understand many of the parents didn't believe the way things were told and had some small hope that their kids could still be alive and found, but for many this identification is sadly the nail in the coffin.
My condolences to Alexander Mora's family and the families of all those gone missing.
That's a hell of a frightening/saddening thing to have to live with and even worse the government's lackadaisical response. I hope you all are holding up as best you can over there Pris.
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The point is that that's not the whole story. The remains of that student weren't in the place where the government said they were burned. It was a different Landfill. Things are still wonky. The truth is that a lot of us are fighting with the knowledge that they are most assuredly dead. We are fighting against a government that can't guarantee the lives of their citizens and in some instances plays a part in dissapearing people. Also, a female student was found skinned alive the same day they announced the confirmation so i don't believe the protests will lose much force over this.
Here is the new on Al Jazeera (huh, i didn't even know Al Jazzera had comments).
edit: Oh yeah, and the economy is plummeting and that's bad, really bad for work (So add that to the list of thing i have to cope with).
But uh, Guardians of the galaxy came out on DVD and Blu-ray?
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Stupid regional political ranting below:
! Seriously, fuck Mike Pence and the Indiana Republican Party. They want to remove the state superintendent Glenda Ritz. This is all after her power on the board has been curtailed to almost nothing. After,she sued the state board on the accusation that they were meeting without her in secret. Spoiler, the case got thrown out on a technicality instead of the merit of the charges. After, the Governor created and dissolved a competing agency to undermine her power. In short, fuck the will of the people, we will do what ALEC wants.
Fun facts: Ritz was elected to office by more votes than the Governor and Senator Donnelly. During the election, Glenda Ritz was outspent by over a million and a half dollars by Republican Tony Bennett, who was the darling of the school "reform" movement, in a Republican State with a Republican Governor with a Republican Legislature. Also, the former superintendent, Bennett, was charged with corruption and is currently under investigation for wire fraud.Also, in actual news, BP has to pay the full amount for the gulf oil spill, for now. via NPR
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Also, in actual news, BP has to pay the full amount for the gulf oil spill, for now. via NPR
Well the supreme court did rule that corps are people so now BP will have to pay punitive damages for the spill…...the only difference is that unlike an average person they're good for it.
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Well the supreme court did rule that corps are people so now BP will have to pay punitive damages for the spill…...the only difference is that unlike an average person they're good for it.
Wait a minute… That's actually a thing? I thought that was just a silly gaffe Mitt Romney made on the campaign trail.
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@Monkey:
I hate the world sometimes…. Especially because all this BS started in my home state.
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Wait a minute… That's actually a thing? I thought that was just a silly gaffe Mitt Romney made on the campaign trail.
I saw a thing the other day that said that, towards the end, every statement from the Romney campaign had to be vetted by twenty-two people before it could be released. Tweets, blog posts, everything.
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Wait a minute… That's actually a thing? I thought that was just a silly gaffe Mitt Romney made on the campaign trail.
Trying to find an instance of when Romney didn't make a gaffe is like trying to find ash in a rainstorm.
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How about a bit of funny to lighten up all the shit going around here? Like a news caster who just found out what a Furry is and runs out of the news room?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/08/mika-brzezinski-furries-awkward-morning-joe-segment_n_6288468.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063(has to do with the recent gas attack at a Furry convention that left 19 injured)
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Willie Geist has a fox tail out of camera. That's why he wasn't fazed.
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In other news: the CIA Torture investigation is out, amongst which the wonderful highlights are:
Torture didn't work and the CIA aggressively lied about it working!
Said torture includes:- Forcing the detainee to be naked, perform sexual acts, or pose in a sexual manner.
- Placing hoods or sacks over the head of a detainee; using duct tape over the eyes.
- Applying beatings, electric shock, burns, or other forms of physical pain.
- "Waterboarding."
- Using military working dogs.
- Inducing hypothermia or heat injury.
- Conducting mock executions.
- Depriving the detainee of necessary food, water, or medical care.
America! Fuck yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Americka :DDD
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And that's even after the CIA redacted the hell out of that report.
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In other news: the CIA Torture investigation is out, amongst which the wonderful highlights are:
Torture didn't work and the CIA aggressively lied about it working!Said torture includes:
America! Fuck yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Americka :DDD
This news is so old it can apply for social security checks.
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Did you read the linked article? What's old about a CIA report that was released today?
CIA torturing is indeed "old news," - though I rather think it an evergreen topic - but the Senate Intelligence Committee finally releasing its summary of the six thousand page "Torture Report" proving conclusively how egregious and wretched the CIA's behavior was… is not? The CIA had been trying to cockblock this committee for years to keep details of its interrogations private, but pissed them off by stealing files out of a secret Virginian location designated for the express purposes of Senate oversight before the committee could fully read them, setting the chairwoman of the committee, Diane Feinstein, on the warpath. Hadn't anyone heard about this?
There's going to be much ado about it in the coming days, I imagine.
Al-Jazeera, with the 525pg Executive Summary at the bottom of the article: Flawed, brutal and ineffective: Senate’s damning report on CIA torture.
NYTimes: Senate Torture Report Condemns C.I.A. Interrogation Program
NPR: Report Says CIA Misled Senate, White House On Interrogation Program.
ThinkProgress.org:The 5 Most Damning Revelations From The CIA’s Report On Bush-Era Torture.
Preliminary analysis, Vox Media: The huge new Senate report on CIA torture, explained.
Preliminary analysis, anti-torture arguments, Gawker: Your Guide to CIA Torture and Its Sick, Sad American Apologists.
There's some revelatory shit buried deep in here: Forced rectal exams, detainees forced to remain awake for 160 hours, sexual abuse, threats against family… The report includes locations of CIA Torture facilities, the CIA deliberately misinforming the White House on the efficacy of its intelligence, proof that torture didn't lead to the capture of Osama Bin Laden, examples of the infighting at the CIA and even instances where they were torturing their own informants. It gets pretty wild - and that's only what, as Ubiq says, wasn't redacted.
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threats against family…
This is at least one thing I was already aware of with one detainee having his infant son threatened via genital torture.
proof that torture didn't lead to the capture of Osama Bin Laden,
Which if I'm not mistaken has been mentioned multiple times after the fact.
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Thank you for your valuable contribution to this discussion. Please, don't stop here.
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I'm gonna hope that my post was informative for someone who hadn't apparently speedread through 525 pages of documentation this morning to proclaim loudly "Ha! There was a thing I already knew!!" Thank you.
But man hook me up with your speed reading classes. Do you use Spritz? What's your Goldilocks Zone?'Cause damn.
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Will this have consequences though?
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We all knew the methods the CIA used (Damn, a lot of them were fiercely used during the latinamerican dictatorships) and it goes really way back but the info that Silence is sharing is new or worth knowing so don't be callin it old news.
And if you did knew or you are a Secret CIA agent that knew about this from the very beginning please let the rest of us know and also you should tell us what happened to Jimmy Hoffa and if Jay Z is an Illuminatti or a Lizard.
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Will this have consequences though?
Besides resignations and reassignments…..I honestly don't think so I guess the shit that Bush and Cheney got away with has made me a bit cynical about their being a significant level of accountability for our government and it's various agencies.
And if you did knew or you are a Secret CIA agent that knew about this from the very beginning please let the rest of us know and also you should tell us what happened to Jimmy Hoffa and if Jay Z is an Illuminatti or a Lizard.
I'll get to work on that as soon as I can unlock the mystery of what one hand clapping sounds like.
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That would be hard, i think your head is in a place where it can't quite hear that sound.
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That would be hard, i think your head is in a place where it can't quite hear that sound.
Silent but deadly.
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That would be hard, i think your head is in a place where it can't quite hear that sound.
I like you!
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This is both new stuff, and old stories that the report corraborates.
Everyone is right and wrong, but basically right. This is a dumb fight.
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Will this have consequences though?
The time for consequences was six years ago when there were enough new people in Washington that had their hands clean of the whole affair. Not really the case these days.
I'll get to work on that as soon as I can unlock the mystery of what one hand clapping sounds like.
The answer to that koan is to face the questioner and thrust your palm towards them confidently and with great poise.
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Woah, when did I get involved? I never said that to my recollection. This is slander!
Besides, I already know what the sound of one hand clapping is. It's just like the sound of two hands clapping, but one less.
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The answer to that koan is to face the questioner and thrust your palm towards them confidently and with great poise.
Damn I must've really dropped the ball to have Wagomu given credit for that instead.
In other news
If you're a hate group, live in Iowa, and hate people telling you, you can't burn the flag (which you actually can do), good news.
http://whotv.com/2014/12/04/judge-rules-iowas-flag-statutes-unconstitutional/
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Thank goodness that the Westboro Baptist Church has always been a bastion of traditional American values, such as American flag burning.
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@Purple:
Thank goodness that the Westboro Baptist Church has always been a bastion of traditional American values, such as American flag burning.
And the standard of protesting at the funerals of dead soldiers.
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The article calls them "unlikely partners" but there's really nothing "unlikely" or new about ACLU acting on behalf of hate groups.
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so 2014 is the year of reading women and it's almost at an end.
Here's the first one written in January:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/22/year-of-reading-women-2014-bias-male-writers
Here's the second one that was written a few days ago:
A few days left, if you haven't done it you can read something. There's a lot of possibilities:
-Murasaki Shikibu
-Clarice Lispector (I don't like her but eh…)
-Flannery o' Connor
-Guadalupe Nettel
-Emily Dickinson
-Virginia Woolf
-Gertrude Stein
-Carmen Nadal
-Almudena Grande
-Inés Arredondo
-Leonora Carrington
-Rutu Modan
-Marjane Satrapi
-Jennifer Egan (Oh man, here comes the Goon Squad is awesome)
-Hildegard von Bingen (don't really know her name in english)Man, I can't think of a french one. It will be so obvious after i post it and i will be so ashamed.
I just bought a book by Margaret Atwood and another by Zadie Smith. Dunno which one i will read.
Edit: Simone de Beauvoir, son of a bitch.
Edit: Oooooh, Dorothy Parker!
Oh, also can someone from an English speaking country smuggle a book called The Rattle bag for me? It's too expensive here...maybe throw a Goldfinch too? :p
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Woah, when did I get involved? I never said that to my recollection. This is slander
Damn I must've really dropped the ball to have Wagomu given credit for that instead.
Every once in a blue moon, I'll click Reply with Quote and it'll throw in a few random quotes from the last time I used the Multi-Quote feature. I just weed out the others but didn't pay close enough attention to who was what.
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To be fair, I slander Wags all the time, so it's not like it's uncommon for him.
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Slander is spoken; in print, it's libel.
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Every once in a blue moon, I'll click Reply with Quote and it'll throw in a few random quotes from the last time I used the Multi-Quote feature. I just weed out the others but didn't pay close enough attention to who was what.
Nice to have a laugh at one of our mistakes every now and again though I liked the Rodney Kung bit from the day before a bit better.
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Slander is spoken; in print, it's libel.
This is true. But do not be mistaken. He receives both.
I just go up to random people on the street and tell them what a piece of crap Wagomu is.
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Ha, it quoted Wagomu again when I hit Reply with Quote.
I liked the Rodney Kung bit from the day before a bit better.
I blame that one on the smartphone and not noticing it until hours later. Little point in fixing it at that point.
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How about a bit of funny to lighten up all the shit going around here? Like a news caster who just found out what a Furry is and runs out of the news room?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/08/mika-brzezinski-furries-awkward-morning-joe-segment_n_6288468.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063(has to do with the recent gas attack at a Furry convention that left 19 injured)
I've been amused with the media coverage of this event because like every other article I've read on the attack has spent like most of it explaining what furries "are", as if it's somehow relevant to the fact that people were GASSED. (Well, I suppose it is, but still.)
I'm trying to be a good sport about it though. It irritates me that this is pretty much pulling stereotypes up from underneath the woodwork.
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A convention center was just gassed with chlorine and 19 people had to go to the hospital blah, blah, blah, but what about those FURRIES HUH!?
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Yeah, I really have to avoid looking at news covering that, or more specifically, being foolish enough to look at any comments. (Granted that should always hold true, but especially so here). I mean, honestly, I can understand people finding the whole 'furry' thing a little strange, and I'd even be the first to admit that watching people evacuate the building in all these different animal suits is incredibly surreal, just for the juxtaposition of deadly serious reality with whimsical fantasy.
All that said, one of my closest friends was at that event, and actually got some of the brunt of it, from what I understand. I have no idea if she's counted among the 19 – if anything, I assume not, because she declined an ambulance and didn't go to the hospital -- but when evacuating from the 9th floor, she ended up going down the very staircase at the top of which the chlorine was. For those that don't know, chlorine is a heavy gas, so it sinks. Basically, in the process of trying to get out, she was going deeper and deeper into it. Evidently she was starting to feel the effects pretty badly, including tunneling vision, when she was only on the 7th floor. She told me she honestly thought she might die there.
She's okay now, more or less, as of last time I talked to her. But hearing about that was absolutely horrifying for me. So I think it's pretty obvious why comments of the sort I never much care for in the first place are especially grating to me, like ones along the lines of 'lol only 19 they need to try harder next time', and 'who cares, it's not like they're people'. (Comments paraphrased, but I have seen multiple ones legitimately along those lines).
I'll tell you what, friend. Allow me to grant you your implicit point that some humans aren't really 'people'; it's not the ones that enjoy dressing up as animals that disqualify themselves, I'll tell you that much. I'd also suggest you look in a mirror sometime.
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Malala and Satyarthi received the Nobel Prize
Also a mexican with a flag with blood appeared at the ceremony. I'm so sorry guys but we really want to dennounce our government. But yeah, i'm sorry for that.
edit: And to the ones asking how did the guy get there….well, we're kinda everywhere lol.
A picture of the guy.
I'll try to upload later the speech of both winners (well, when they are available).
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A convention center was just gassed with chlorine and 19 people had to go to the hospital blah, blah, blah, but what about those FURRIES HUH!?
Yeah, the fact that the police are treating it as an intentional act is kinda being downplayed here.
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Yeah, the fact that the police are treating it as an intentional act is kinda being downplayed here.
The police are in fact taking it seriously but some media outlets and regular viewers? They're acting like it's some sort of…joke.
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The police are in fact taking it seriously but some media outlets and regular viewers? They're acting like it's some sort of…joke.
Exactly; imagine the reaction if this had happened at a concert or football game.
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Exactly; imagine the reaction if this had happened at a concert or football game.
It would've probably been called a terrorist attack by many right off the bat or at least speculated. The feds would get involved and every stadium across the country would increase their security to show they're taking the situation very seriously. People would be scared. Reasonable responses to a degree but a drastic difference from what just happened here.
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Didn't find the acceptance speech (still isn't up i guess) This one isn't the speech
But hey, have MLK Jr. acceptance speech while were at it: