The Perfect Prisoner

John Walker Lyndh

Cindy Sheehan

Be not weary in well doing

Afghan Massacre - 2001

General Dostum at Kunduz and Mazar al Sharif.
prisoner abuse.
remember John Walker Lindh?
Here is the video, from Democracy Now!

David Halberstam

Glen Greewald's commentary
on speaking falsehoods to weaklings

Plumbers Without Borders

TED

What She Was Wearing

this is my suicide dress

New Yorker

"Fortunately, it doesn't last long".
"We have woven the sound of the alarm clock into our dreams." Lovelock.

Thich Quang Duc

June 11, 1963 (a reenactment)

The Jay Bybee Problem

Scott Horton

The John Yoo Problem

Jonathan Turley

Clean energy

is not this, and it's not mountain top removal.

Bush's Monica

Underling. Helping staff the DOJ

Japan has a nuclear program

says a trucker @14:26
That portion of the video is no longer there.
However, here is a link to a similar comment.

Nine is enough

These people broke the law,
and need to be held accountable.

Ok, maybe nine is not enough.
Oh yea, and Rumsfeld

Where is my vote

Here somewhere.

Abu Dhabi

New Old Havana

Revolutionary Anarchist

Laissez-faire and the industrial revolution.

The Iranian Empire, in green

Southern Iraq is a given. Alliance with Kurdish Northern Iraq is a given, to put pressure on Turkey. All of Iraq's oil is gone, and so all of Iraq. Iran's alliance with the country formerly known as Lebanon is a given, and with Gaza. Iran is not a state ruled by mullahs. Khameni, the pope, is no more religious than our 10th century popes were, and is no scholar, and Amhadi-Nejad, the Press Secretary, is from the Revolutionary Guards. Sistani, in Najaf, keeps his head down. Herat is Iranian. Iran could not crush Sadaam by force, so we did it for them, and the Taliban.
Watch our navy base in Bahrain, in the Persian Gulf.
Saudi Arabia is a corrupt failed state waiting to be sliced open.
Northern and Eastern Africa? Available.

Tim DeChristopher

For Secretary of the Interior

Scott Carrier

Beyond Rangoon
and Beyond El Paso

How to do it

Torture?

Better that one should die.

My Robot Friend

US: No longer hoods

Pentagon officials yesterday repudiated the harsh interrogation tactics adopted since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, specifically forbidding U.S. troops from using forced nudity, hooding, military dogs and waterboarding to elicit information from prisoners captured in ongoing wars. <Washington Post, Sept 7, 2006>
Also, no more 'disappearing'.
Interrogation Rules of Engagement: wall poster

The presidents highest Constitutional duty

is to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution
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Obama echoed John in his Oslo acceptance speech
sigh

Was this the worst?

What, we didn't boil anybody?
The deaths at Bagram AFB.
What about murders in NYC?


Abdul Wahed died in the American special forces bases at Gereshk in southern Afghanistan in November 2003. etc.

Upper Utopia

Independent Lens

Sen Jeremiah Denton

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True Believer.
"We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country under difficult circumstances. We are profoundly grateful to our Commander-in-Chief and to our nation for this day. God bless America."
12Feb1973
Proud having served in Vietnam,
and (proud?) supporter of the contras.
David Belavia, deja vu.
There is a way that seems right to a man

No room for the hopeless sinner

Who would hurt mankind, just to save his own

Chinese water tortureBamboo under the fingernails, etc

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Treating the wounded, in Vietnam.

Sweet

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Quang Tri, Vietnam

A superfund site. Or should be.

46th mersenne prime number

has 13-million digits, the article says.
Does it?
The "46th" mersenne prime number is (2**43,112,609)-1

1 + log base 10 of a number is the number of digits in a number:
log base 10 of 10 is 1; of 100 is 2; of 1000 is 3.

log base 10 of 2 is 0.301029996, from google

(2 ** 43,112,609) = (10 ** .301029996 ** 43,112,609)

(.30103 * 43,112,609) = (12,978,188)

12,978,189 digits is less than 13 million.

The approximation of 2**10 = 1,000
is useful for estimating powers of 2.

For example, (2**60) = (2**10**6) = (1,000**6)
1,000**6 is six commas or a quintillion.

Applying that approximation to this question,
2**43,112,609 has 4,311,260 commas or 12,933,782 digits

The sick man of europe

(c)
For some reason, these new birds did not seem as interested in William's bird seed.
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When an empire collapses, the squabbles start.

Torture 1967

Tossing the highest ranking VC out of a helicopter served
to loosen the tongue of the rest of the detainees.
As in Winter Soldier, but with purpose.

DV

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My Precious

Invisibility. State secrets. My Precious.

Pick up your cross

and follow Me.
How far? I mean, I thought he died for us? No?
Not exactly

The Blind

leading the blind. So far so good.

Vacation in Alberta

Come for the oil, stay for the adventure.

Tear gas

[>]
can kill.

The 50th anniversary

of the failed Tibetan uprising.
That is to say, of the Chinese invasion of Tibet.

Keith Giles

is not a well individual.

The globe

is falling.
The tribe is cockroach.

The Noughties

Power

corrupts

Planting Season

Cross your fingers.

NPO

DNR

Refugees

Get in line now. There will be no cutting.

Dmitry Orlov

Shoots his mouth off.

Hospice care for the financial systems.

Jim Kunstler

Shoots his mouth off.

Michael Pollan

Shoots his mouth off.

Children of the mountains - ABC

"When the banking industry melts down, it's like, 'Oh, no, we have a structural problem. We need to reinvest in those people.' But when the folks in Appalachia or the inner city are poor, it's their fault," Davis said.

What a way to go

Building 7 vs the Mandarin Oriental Hotel

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Broken promises

The economy is based on promises.
For example, your bank account is a promise.
The US Government has promised to pay 11 trillion dollars.
Some of that to you. Do you think they will?
Where will they get eleven trillion?

Here is a picture of it

Except that the fish is eating himself.