Tag: torture
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How Netflix’s New @Daredevil Series Makes #Torture Into a Virtue
from reason.com: The Daredevil series on Netflix is about how one man, alone and with right in his heart, can change a city for the better using only one weapon: torture. Politically the Daredevil series, based on the long-running Marvel comic about a blind superhero whose alter-ego is a criminal defense lawyer named Matt Murdock,…
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@DeadlineLive: James Evan Pilato on Climate Control
Media Monarchy joins Jack Blood for February to talk about Chicagoland’s black sites, climate control and not-so-funny money + ‘This Day In History’ headlines and more on Deadline Live! Download/Subscribe
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#TortureReport: Corporate Media Comes Down With #Torture Amnesia
from brasschecktv.com: The US news media is displaying shocking amnesia about torture. How long it’s gone, how many of us have been protesting, and who was involved. Bush and Cheney have been mentioned, but here is one name who has escaped attention far.
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Sarah Palin says, ‘Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.’
from csmonitor.com: Sarah Palin has rallied and riled lots of voters in her political career, but she might have hit a new high for controversy over the weekend by saying “waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists” during a speech at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Indianapolis.
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Deadline Live: Media Monarchy on Shooters, Solutions and more
from deadlinelive.info: James Pilato (www.MediaMonarchy.com) joins us to discuss the reality of public shootings and the offered solutions and his boycott of the Bin Laden Kill movie ‘Zero Dark Thirty’. Download MP3
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#Video: “State of Siege” – Why Police States Love Terrorism
from brasschecktv.com: “State of Siege” was made 40 years ago and is a surprisingly difficult film to find. Maybe that’s because it shows in vivid detail how foreign police states operate and how the CIA helps them along. But they wouldn’t do any of that stuff here, would they? Scenes from a very hard-to-find movie…
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#BradleyManning: Forgotten Man
Torturing the truth teller: Bradley Manning Heads for Trial; No One Charged for Murdered Civilians* from brasschecktv.com: We really have not paid enough attention to this case. A soldier who came across evidence of war crimes and released it is being called a traitor with pundits clamoring for his death and prison officials administering forms…
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Scientology’s Concentration Camp for Executives
from villagevoice.com: This weekend, we published a two-part story about the rather amazing 32-year Scientology career of John Brousseau, whose adventures included driving for L. Ron Hubbard, spending time in the Sea Org’s prison program the RPF, and working in the Cruise household with Tom and Katie Holmes. What seemed to generate the most comments,…
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May Day #Mayday! “Sunlight Glistens Off Soaring New Towers”
Occupy Beltane: Anarchists Plot To Bomb Cuyahoga Bridge // 5 arrested for allegedly trying to blow up Ohio bridge // Pentagon admits it has no photo evidence of Bin Laden’s death
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Corbett Report: Episode215 – History Repeating: My Lai, Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan
From My Lai to Abu Ghraib to Afghanistan, we have seen the all-too-familiar pattern: denials followed by excuses followed by faux apologies and offical handwringing. What is never examined is how each event fits into the bigger picture of the dehumanization of war.
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horror stories from christian tough-love teen homes
from mother jones: New Beginnings describes itself as a character-building facility for “troubled teens,” and what Jeannie Marie heard in church that day was that this might be a place for her daughter to heal…”It sounded like a discipleship program,” Jeannie Marie recalls. “A safe place where a daughter can go to have time alone…



