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Guantanamo Suicides “Acts of Warâ€
Guantanamo Suicides “Acts of War” — BBC, June 11, 2006:
The suicides of three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amount to acts of war, the US military says.
The camp commander said the two Saudis and a Yemeni were “committed” and had killed themselves in “an act of asymmetric warfare waged against us”.
Lawyers said the men who hanged themselves had been driven by despair.
A military investigation into the deaths is now under way, amid growing calls for the detention centre to be moved or closed. . . .
Rear Adm Harris said he did not believe the men had killed themselves out of despair.
“They are smart. They are creative, they are committed,” he said.
“They have no regard for life, either ours or their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us.”
All three men had previously taken part in some of the mass on-and-off hunger strikes undertaken by detainees since last August, and all three had been force-fed by camp authorities.
They had left suicide notes, but no details have been made available.
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Presidents
The First Thirteen Presidents
From General George to Millard, all
Owned slaves, except for two:
Those Massachusetts liberals
John (senior) and John (Q.).
Stink Watch
Patrick Fitzgerald’s webpage. Aeiou, le blog de flu. 1,358 bad things about the American president. Dead Metaphor. Bostonpunk.org shows page. Sounds to play over phone conversations at sorrygottago.com. Ascii image generation at toogle.com. Energy beam trouble. History: Fiction or Science?
Chord
Princess Sparkle Pony’s Photo Blog.
Harriet Miers’s Weblog. The Potted Meat Museum. Association of International Glaucoma Societies. “In this frame of mind it occurred to me to put the question directly to myself: ‘Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institution and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?’ And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, “No!” At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down.” — John Stuart Mill. Classic Hawaiian music. September 10, 2005 was World Naked Gardening Day. RogerART.com. Franz’s website. INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY WEBSITE. One Global Communty. The Tax History Museum. Improv Everywhere. The Official Flat Stanley Project.
Photography
Fifty Crows: “social change photography.” The Digital Journalist. The Documentary Photography Project at the Open Society Institute.Camera/Iraq: “the war of images in the Middle East.” Lens Culture. The New York Public Library’s Digital Gallery. Quarlo.com. How the snail cross the ‘bridge’. Dust houses. Raysoda. Pinhole photography website links at Pinhole Visions. Digital pinhole photography by Keith Cooper. “Camera fished from pond now takes surrealistic photos.” The Wandering Eye. Slower.net. Exuberance.com.
Explanation
I think it’s important for me to be thoughtful and sensitive to those who have got something to say. But I think it’s also important for me to go on with my life, to keep a balanced life . . . I think the people want the president to be in a position to make good, crisp decisions and to stay healthy. And part of my being is to be outside exercising. So I’m mindful of what goes on around me. On the other hand, I’m also mindful that I’ve got a life to live and will do so.
Social Security
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid. — Dwight Eisenhower, 11/8/1954.
Images
“Nice photos of a rotten holiday in Bulgaria” at I Like. One-Man Safari. Google Sightseeing. Composite suspect drawings from the Michigan State Police. The MonkeyView Photo Server. Tina Magazine. American Flag Burning Archive. The last forty images posted to LiveJournal pages. Images from toy cameras. LiveJournal Photographers. Japanese Ant Image Library. The Snowsuit Effort. Messy Pics. Chromasia. Daily Dose of Imagery. Photojunkie. A Walk through Durham Township, Pennsylvania. Myredself.org. NYCLondon black and white photography weblog.
Weblogs
The Index of Political Blogs. Christopher Ian Applegate’s qwghlm.co.uk. Xogij.blogs.com. Alternative Hippopotamus. Spy Blog: “This United Kingdom based blog attempts to draw public attention to, and comments on, some of the current trends in ever cheaper and more widespread surveillance technology being deployed to satisfy the rapacious demand by state and corporate bureaucracies and criminals for your private details, and the technological ignorance of our politicians and civil servants who frame our legal systems.” Newspaper corrections examined at Regret the Error. The Observer Blog. Wind Rose Hotel: Mostly in Italian, with links to other Italian weblogs. Halfway Down the Danube: posts from Bucharest. We Make Money Not Art. Silt3. A collection of Microsoft Excel weblogs: Andrew’s Excel Tips, Automate Excel, Colo’s Excel Junk Room, Dick’s Daily Dose of Excel, Excel Pragma, J-Walk, The Planning Deskbook, van Gelder. R. Robot, the self-writing weblog. Bighappyfunhouse: excellent found photos.