Infamy has a price...

dannii-chan: ikenbot: you can’t.

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:32:31 -0700

dannii-chan:

ikenbot:

you can’t.

Looking at food safety in Japan after the disaster at Fukushima

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:54:06 -0700

Looking at food safety in Japan after the disaster at Fukushima:

More data

Fukushima Fallout Threat and Cover Up Continues

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:51:20 -0700

Fukushima Fallout Threat and Cover Up Continues:

A creeping and never ending deadly fog of radiation, invisible to the eye but not to the immune system, continues to blanket the West Coast while its human cost is just beginning to be perceived.

People are starting to wake up. Are you?

Movie of the Week: Breaking Away (1979) Not just a great sports...

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:41:18 -0700

Movie of the Week:

Breaking Away (1979)

Not just a great sports movie, it’s a great LIFE movie

Photo

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:41:06 -0700

theneighbourhoodsuperhero: The anguish is clear on the face of...

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:41:45 -0700

theneighbourhoodsuperhero:

The anguish is clear on the face of Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, who takes long pauses in an attempt to steady his tearful voice, as he recounts to the interviewer about how American interrogators repeatedly raped and tortured, or pretended to rape and torture, a woman in the cell next to him in an attempt to force him to falsely confess.

Begg’s eyes cloud over and he stares off into the distance as he relates how they manipulated his biggest fear, that his wife and children who were with him at the time of his arrest, were also imprisoned and in danger:

“I heard the cries of a woman (in the cell next to me) and an American voice shouting, ‘Spread your legs!’ and the woman is screaming and crying (as if she is being raped). Before I used to (always) ask the Americans about what happened to my wife and children since my arrest. They said ‘We don’t know,’ but at this time I didn’t ask because I was afraid of the answer. I thought my wife was in the cell.”

Begg was tortured and assaulted physically, mentally, psychologically, emotionally, and sexually as the American interrogators tried “breaking him down” in order to make him sign false confessions. Begg was released after three years spent in US custody without any charges held against him.

It is still not clear to this day whether the woman in the cell next to him was a fellow inmate also unjustly prisoned or an interrogator posing as a woman in distress.

It is known but hardly ever reported that the United States detains (Muslim) women who they “suspect” of being terrorists for no apparent reason, an example being Dr. Aafia Siddiqui (shown below in a picture of her taken while in US custody) who was abducted with her children by US intelligence.

After severe mistreatment in custody, during which she sustained a gunshot wound, Siddiqui was sentenced to 84 years in prison. Her young children who were with her when she was kidnapped and subsequently detained and interrogated have only recently been relocated. Siddiqui’s youngest son, who hadn’t even started walking yet, has disappeared since her kidnapping with no hint whatsoever of his whereabouts. Her older son has claimed that “the bloody body of his baby brother” was tossed to the side of the road by US soldiers when Siddiqui and her children were arrested. During her trial, Siddiqui was repeatedly removed from the court room for interrupting proceedings to scream out that her children had been tortured in front of her.

Four men who were imprisoned with Dr. Siddiqui in Bagram and who managed to escape reported in an interview:

“When they torture you, they threaten to sodomise you, they threaten to bring your wife and rape her in front of you and do other things to her. My words can never fully explain to you what happened during those interrogations.”

“Those American criminals think that they are the lords of human rights and that they are the callers for the freedom of the woman and her rescuers from oppression. There is a woman from Pakistan. She was put in solitary confinement for two full years in Bagram prison among more than 500 male prisoners and guards. She was treated the same way as the men were. This woman stayed there until she lost her mind, until she became insane, hitting the door and screaming day and night.”

Movie of the Week: The Incredibles (2004) “Honey,...

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:40:11 -0700

Movie of the Week:

The Incredibles (2004)

“Honey, where’s my super suit?”

“Unheard Voices”, a 3-act play written and performed...

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:21:08 -0700

“Unheard Voices”, a 3-act play written and performed by teenagers from Fukushima Japan is in the spotlight this week.

Attn. Bunheads fans

Sat, 11 May 2013 22:58:53 -0700

I see a lot of people moaning about Bunheads not being picked up yet by ABC Family for a second season. It’s been my experience that if you want a show back on the air, you need to be LOUD about it. Think Milly Stone when she and Michelle took on The Association For The Preservation of Keeping It Real In Paradise (TAFTPOKIRIP) in There’s Nothing Worse than a Pantsuit

You may not necessarily need an accountant, a hacker OR jumbo beads to help you win. You just need to let ABC Family know that this is how it’s going to go down.

Leave a message on their phone line:

818-460-7477

Send correspondence:

ABC Family

P.O. Box 3000
Neenah, WI 54957

Or my favorite, Twitter bomb:

@ABCFamily

dermoosealini: satanic-capitalist: Japanese Movement Against...

Sat, 11 May 2013 14:08:20 -0700

dermoosealini:

satanic-capitalist:

Japanese Movement Against TPP Growing (by TheRealNews)

Published on May 6, 2013

Critics of the Trans-Pacific Partnership say it’s an attempt to impose an American system on Japan and would threaten Japanese public healthcare system

If Conservative Americans from the Agriculture and Auto Industry were aware of the potential harm the TPP could inflict on them it would already be dead.

The TPP has been called “NAFTA on steroids” and that is not a good thing.

"If You Love This Planet You Will Change the Priorities of Your Life and Work Every Second of Every Day to Save It": Physician and Anti-Nuclear Activist Helen Caldicott Speaks Out Against War

Sat, 11 May 2013 09:20:16 -0700

"If You Love This Planet You Will Change the Priorities of Your Life and Work Every Second of Every Day to Save It": Physician and Anti-Nuclear Activist Helen Caldicott Speaks Out Against War:

For the first time since the Gulf War, the Pentagon plans to move a full combat division of U.S. forces to within striking distance of Iraq. Overall 50,000 troops are expected to be sent to the region this month to almost double the size of the U.S. presence in the region. The troops are prepared to go to war by mid-February. [includes rush transcript]

"Through the centuries, while their European counterparts in Europe grew up on stories that depicted..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 09:20:01 -0700

“Through the centuries, while their European counterparts in Europe grew up on stories that depicted women as weak, helpless, sinister, or untrustworthy, Native American women grew up hearing tales about the powers and strengths of women. They heard stories about women healers, women warriors, women artists, women prophets. But above all, they heard stories of woman as the divine creator, woman as a supernatural power, woman as a force of transformation in the universe. There are dozens of variations in the details, but the core meaning is consistent: women, and the female forces of the universe, are strong. Sometimes they are so powerful that they can change the course of the world. Often, once they take a stand, they change their own lives and the lives of those around them.”

- Susan Hazen-Hammond, Spider Woman’s Web: Traditional Native American Tales About Women’s Power

[This quote is from the FIRST TWO FUCKING PAGES of the introduction.]

(via iygrittenothing)

oswaldofguadalupe: TUC Radio / Joseph Mangano - Post Fukushima...

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:20:17 -0700

oswaldofguadalupe:

TUC Radio / Joseph Mangano - Post Fukushima Increases in Thyroid disease in Newborns on the West Coast of the USA

On March 7, 2013, an article was published in the Open Journal of Pediatrics <http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=28599>. Co-written by Joseph Mangano and Dr. Jeanette Sherman it stated that in the first 15 weeks, after the fallout from Japan arrived in the US, the number of newborns with Hypothyroid disease increased by 28% on the West Coast while declining by 3% in the rest of the country. Mangano presented this report on March 12, 2013, at the Fukushima Symposium at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York City.

Mangano is the Executive Director of the Radiation and Public Health Project. <http://www.radiation.org/>He is a public health administrator and researcher.

The Fukushima Symposium presented two days of medicine, environmental science and nuclear engineering related to the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi. The two day event was organized by The Helen Caldicott Foundation and cosponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Here are important links:
<http://nuclearfreeplanet.org/>
The link to streaming video is at:
<http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?id=hcf#>

Hollywood effects wizard Ray Harryhausen dies at 92

Tue, 07 May 2013 12:09:19 -0700

Hollywood effects wizard Ray Harryhausen dies at 92:

The legendary filmmaker was best known for movies such as ‘Jason and the Argonauts.’

LEGENDARY

Movie of the Week: Glory (1989) Seriously, one of my most...

Mon, 06 May 2013 09:20:18 -0700

Movie of the Week:

Glory (1989)

Seriously, one of my most favorite soundtracks

Abe purges energy board of antinuclear experts

Fri, 03 May 2013 21:28:00 -0700

Abe purges energy board of antinuclear experts:

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government has removed most of the antinuclear researchers appointed to a post-Fukushima energy policy board that was advising the state, it was learned Friday. After …

UNACCEPTABLE

stopdropandrun: Jonathan Hobin Re-Creates the World’s Most...

Fri, 03 May 2013 09:20:11 -0700

"The Twins" - depicting the attacks of 9/11

"A Boo Grave" - depicting Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse and torture

"GOT HIM" - depicts Seal Team 6 's raid and takedown of Osama Bin Laden

"Dear Leader" - depicting North Korea and their threats against the world.

"White Nights" - depicting Jim Jones and the fall of Jamestown

"Obama Nation" - depicting Obama's rise to presidency and politics

"Holy Smoke" - depicting a monk, Thich Quang Duc who burned himself, protesting the Vietnam War

"Acid Washed" - depicting acid attacks in Muslim countries

stopdropandrun:

Jonathan Hobin Re-Creates the World’s Most Infamous Tragedies with Children

more of the album here

Brilliant

rt.com

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:20:27 -0700

rt.com:

Guantanamo attorney dead in apparent suicide

I dedicate this podcast to the memory and spirit of my friend...

Thu, 02 May 2013 01:12:15 -0700

I dedicate this podcast to the memory and spirit of my friend Laci Nicole.

herochan: What is Free Comic Book Day? Free Comic Book Day is...

Wed, 01 May 2013 22:34:57 -0700

herochan:

What is Free Comic Book Day?

Free Comic Book Day is the first Saturday in May each year - when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely free to anyone who comes into their stores. Check out this video for more info.

Check here to find your local participating comic book shop.