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The @WashingtonPost has helpfully put all of Michael Hayden's lies to Congress about torture into one graphic: http://t.co/zuH0jmyh9m
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"Rectal feeding," threats to children, and more: 16 awful abuses from the CIA torture reporthttp://t.co/ft2vgVRp7R http://t.co/rzWqu5zsns
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My third BBC Reith Lecture on the Future of Medicine, which just aired this AM, is now online here: bbc.in/1yLznRs
1/The Senate CIA Torture Report reveals savage, immoral, utterly despicable practices by our govt. 1.usa.gov/1yzHywf
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3/The torture could not proceed w/o medical supervision. The medical profession was deeply embedded in this inhumanity.
4/It was doctors who devised the rectal infusions “as a means of behavior control.” (p100)
5/Doctors suggested the water temperature for waterboarding and use of saline instead of free water to avoid water intoxication. (p86, 419)
6/Doctors watched as stress positions inflicted pain, lacerations, and only stopped them when producing, e.g., shoulder dislocation (70)
7/Psychologists, who were supposed to stop damaging interrogation, actually served as interrogators. (72)
8/The Office of Medical Services provided consultation on when fractures and wounds were healed enough to resume torture. (p113)
9/The Office of Medical Services wrote guidelines approving up to 3 waterboard sessions in 24 hours per prisoner. (p87)
10/When torture caused Abu Zubaydah’s eyes to deteriorate, MDs only intervened to insure ability to see was saved to aid interrogation.(112)
11/Doctors found prisoners with broken feet and still approved putting them into standing positions for up to 52 hours (p112)
12/Doctors were long the medical conscience of the military. The worst occurred because gov't medical leaders abdicated that role. (p87)
Fox mocks torture in CIA report:
"getting water splashed on his face"
"loud music is called law school preparing for the bar exam"
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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced today that 18 states have been awarded grants, totaling more than $226 million, under the Preschool Development Grants program.
From the 36 applications the departments received, five states will be awarded development grants: Alabama, Arizona, Hawaii, Montana and Nevada. Thirteen will receive expansion grants: Arkansas, Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia.
preschool... 226 million+ to start them earlier..
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"The Anthropology of Economy" by Stephen Gudeman
"On my view, the commons is the material thing or knowledge a people have in common, what they share, so that what happens to a commons is not a physical incident but a social event. Taking away the commons destroys community, and destroying a complex of relationships demolishes a commons. Likewise, denying others access to the commons denies community with them, which is exactly what the assertion of privateproperty rights does. The so-called ‘tragedy of the commons’ (Hardin 1968), which refers to destruction of a resource through unlimited use by individuals, is a tragedy not of a physical commons but of a human community, because of the failure of its members to treat one another as communicants and its transformation to a competitive situation. Often a community economy does not despoil the environment as rapidly as a market economy does, because in doing so it despoils itself."
(via Tim Waterman)
"On my view, the commons is the material thing or knowledge a people have in common, what they share, so that what happens to a commons is not a physical incident but a social event. Taking away the commons destroys community, and destroying a complex of relationships demolishes a commons. Likewise, denying others access to the commons denies community with them, which is exactly what the assertion of privateproperty rights does. The so-called ‘tragedy of the commons’ (Hardin 1968), which refers to destruction of a resource through unlimited use by individuals, is a tragedy not of a physical commons but of a human community, because of the failure of its members to treat one another as communicants and its transformation to a competitive situation. Often a community economy does not despoil the environment as rapidly as a market economy does, because in doing so it despoils itself."
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Rather than endless mentions like Twitter or articles like before, Fb Trending now sifts out posts by people involved http://t.co/zw9bRD4CRD
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@jonathanfields People get coopted by the majority because they believe that is the ONLY way to belong. This is, of course, a lie.
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“@dmlresearchhub: tribute to #BrotherMike from Connie Yowell (@Connie) got me… http://t.co/vTIyCfepCHhttp://t.co/U0EhLctytM”
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There is no revolution without love. #BrotherMike taught me that.
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Finally finished reading the Torture Report. The footnotes are key. Man, are we a disturbed bunch of people...
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Bittorrent proposes a decentralized peer-to-peer vision for the entire web. This is the future I want.http://t.co/xjwVtzcTbz @bramcohen
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