It grieves me that it could possibly be necessary to argue to an American - much less an American veteran - that torture undermines everything that we would like to think we stand for…
1992 U.S. Army Interrogation Field Manual 34-52 states: “Experience indicates that the use of prohibited techniques is not necessary to gain the [...]
Joseph Nechvatal is a “chef extraordinaire” of the artworld. Using the ingredients of source images, viral codes and attacks, computer-robotic collaboration, as well as his own creative, activist, theoretical sensibilities, he serves up luscious feasts of haunting, liminal images. Nechvatal’s “viractual” digital paintings are dynamic in a way that belies their 2-dimensionality. Pregnant with an [...]
BBC News Aug 18
Rolling in more troops for prison security, taking in more prisoners, building yet another prison camp.
As the insurgency continues, there are now nearly 11,000 prisoners in major US-run detention centres - twice as many as last September. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said last month he would like to give Iraq’s government [...]
Since I have banned further comments on this blog from him, the troll that has been posting nasty comments made an entry in his own blog E Pluribus Reluctor using me as a lightning rod for his hatred of liberals, feminists, intellectuals, etc. Here is his post.
Tuesday, August 02, 2005 Architect-1,Professor-0
Once again, facts [...]
I’ts not so much that we have outright censorship. The White House sends out press releases. It doesn’t have a whole lot of interviewing. And it they don’t like what you say, they cut off all access.
Then, it’s a matter of money. Advertisers, network owners, and so on.
But you know, last night an old girlfriend [...]
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