Who says Pres Bush was lazy?

The Bush scandals. A work in progress

Books!

So I asked Mama dearest for cash instead of kind this Christmas so that i could get some books. (The woman has a bad habit of buying me perfumes I don't wear for gifts) And behold the loot that cometh:

Thinking Class: Sketches from a Cultural Worker

This one has been under consideration for months. Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism and New Routes to Equity

Unfortunately, these last three were sent to an old address so they will hopefully be forwarded.


I have been coveting this one for a WHILE!When the Prisoners Ran Walpole: A True Story in the Movement for Prison Abolition

Women of Ideas: And What Men Have Done to Them

Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics

On the coveted list?Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor

EDIT: Our Enemies in Blue and Instead of Prisons

HEE!

What about teh children!!!

Aussie gov decided to censor the net

legalised torture and murder

Ladies and gentlemen, tasers KILL. And they are TORTURE. Taser Int'l is LYING. Police should not be running around with these things

Amnesty International has just published a report showing that, since 2001, 334 people have died in the US during or just after Tasering. Jarrel Gray was a partially deaf 20-year-old black man involved in an argument in the street in Frederick County, Maryland, when the police approached him and ordered him to lie on the ground. He didn't hear them – so they Tasered him. As he lay paralysed on the ground, they told him to show his hands. He couldn't obey. They Tasered him again. Jarrel died in hospital two hours later. Ryan Rich was a 33-year-old medical doctor who had an epileptic seizure while driving his car on a Nevada highway. He crashed into the side of the road. The police smashed a window to get into the car and Ryan woke up, startled. The police officer reacted by Tasering him repeatedly. Only when they were handcuffing him did they notice he was turning blue. He was dead before he got to hospital. The coroner noted dryly that the Taser "probably contributed" to his death. Taser International's brochures claim their weapons have "no after-effects."

There may, in fact, be even more deaths than are recorded. Taser International has responded to medical examiners saying their weapons kill not by changing their weapons, but by suing the medical examiners. After the chief medical examiner of Summit Country, Ohio, ruled that Tasering caused the death of three young men, they sued her, and she was forced to remove the conclusions from her reports. The president of the National Association of Medical Examiners says Taser International's behaviour is "dangerously close to intimidation".MORE

See also:

Excessive force

Capital Offense


Mission Creep


Taser company sues medical examiners who dare to note tasers as the cause of death, and bribes other coroners as well


Taser Incident of the day


Taser Tort

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christmas 2008:hell in the Holy Land

hmm.

Riz Khan - Science and Religion - Dec 16 - Part 1

According to the Vatican, human life is sacred from the moment that it is an embryo. But critics accuse the church of trying to stop technological innovations and life-saving medical breakthroughs in its new document " Dignitas Personae".

Riz Khan - Science and Religion - Dec 16 - Part 2

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People & Power - Curse of gold - 8 Jul 08

Human adornment is the driving force behind the global demand for gold. However, for the people of Western Ghana, life only gets harder as the soil under their feet gives up its cherished metal.

See also journeyman pictures


People & Power - Slow food - 8 Jul 08

People & Power looks at the work of Carlo Petrini, an Italian journalist and food activist, whose organisation, Slow Food, is considered the culinary wing of the anti-globalisation movement.

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Nutirtion transition in Africa