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Cheney Friend Throws Out Abu Ghraib Torture Suit

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We didn't learn anything

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Terrorists or freedom fighters?

Tonight on Max and Jason: Still Up

Terrorists or freedom fighters?

March for the Kidnapped
Gustavo Moncayo is an elementary school teacher in Sandona, Narino province (southeast of Colombia). His son, Private Pablo Emilio Moncayo is one of the soldiers who has been held hostage by the FARC for the longest time, as he was kidnapped in 1997. Driven by despair, profesor Moncayo, decided 6 months ago to chain his hands in protest against the situation of his son. Later, aware that his effort was achieving hardly anything, decides to start a walk through half of this country (his hometown is 1005 kilometers far from Bogota) to the capital city with the hope to get his son free again or to put pressure on the government and the FARC to start a humanitarian agreement to help all people held hostage in Colombia. His journey started more than one month ago he doesn't walk alone anymore, as people join him in every town he has passed by.
http://current.com/items/87006701_march-for-the-kidnapped.htm

Secret Prisoner Art
Artists understand imagery symbols and information, therefore the role of the art activist can be to take information and reformat it for a larger audience.
Since the mid-90's, some groups believe that the CIA has operated a programme called extraordinary rendition in which suspected terrorists captured in Western nations are transported to secret locations for torture and interrogation . The extraordinary rendition programme is allegedly largely carried out using leased equipment and private contractors.The Institute for Applied Autonomy, an anonymous collective of artists designers, activists and engineers, have created an imagined CIA travel agency specialising in extraordinary rendition flights, based on the information collected by plane spotters and journalists of actual specific flights of specific people who have been rendered.
The group's stated mission is to develop technologies that extend the autonomy of human activists in public acts of expression. The two week time frame of social conscious and memory is sometimes not enough when the issues are this serious. The installation was part of the Social hacking event in Plymouth.
http://current.com/items/88845768_secret-prisoner-art.htm

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Original air date: 09/11/09Tonight on Max and Jason: Still Up Terrorists or freedom fighters? March for the... more

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The Architect's Newspaper

It seems every September 11 brings with it a new chapter in the redevelopment of the... more

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Maryland Remembers September 11

No matter where you were on this day eight years ago, you probably remember something... more

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Are you a patriot?

There's more to it than flying the flag.

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What to do on 9/11

Take a moment to post your personal plan to perform a good deed, volunteer or engage... more

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The Most Offensive Ad Ever?

The above picture is part of Humo Magazine's advertising campaign.

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World Trade Center Complex Map Shows Building 7 separated by WTC buildings by street and WTC 6

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A danish scientist Niels Harrit, on nano-thermite in the WTC dust ( english subtitles )

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911 In Plane Site DVD

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Barry Jennings - 9/11 WTC7 Full Uncut Interview - 1 of 2

Barry Jennings, deputy emergency manager and witness to World Trade Center tower 7... more

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Media 9/11 Coverup: Gitmo prisoners defend 'blessed' 9/11 attack - CNN.com

The media executives and editors who are knowlingly concealing the truth regarding the... more

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VCAM Tmobile - Generations

A VCAM for T-mobile, about the historic moments that define a generation.

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The Great Change : Winter Weather Sends Arctic Lows East, South

The acceleration of the Great Change into the new age has already begun....

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Which would you prefer? Another 9/11 or eight years of Bush and Cheney?

Interesting question here: which would have been worse for America, a second 9/11 or... more

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Would the World Be Safer Without Religion?

Would the World Be Safer Without Religion?
Faith makes people want to kill each other--but it's the best thing we've got.
Israelis and Palestinians are killing each other by the hundreds in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. Hindus and Muslims are slaughtering each other in India, herding neighbors into house or trains then setting them afire. Catholics and Protestants continue to kill each other in Northern Ireland. Sunnis and Shias have their arms wrapped around each other's throats throughout the Islamic world. And of course, on Sept. 11, 19 Muslims were so determined to murder helpless Christians and Jews that they were willing to die to shed the blood of other religions.

Not a terribly good reflection on faith, is it? If religion makes people want to murder each other, maybe religion is bad for the world.

Religion has certainly been bad for history. In recent decades alone, Hindus and Sikhs have been slaughtering each other, blowing up airliners and firing artillery shells into temples. In the fighting over Sri Lanka, Tamil Hindus have fired machine guns at school buses full of Sinhalese Buddhist children, and the Buddhists in turn have firebombed Hindu schools. Thousands of Chinese grew up as orphans because their Buddhist parents were murdered during World War II at the urging of Shinto priests.

Looking further back, huge numbers of Eastern Orthodox Armenians were murdered by Muslims at the turn of the century. Much of Europe's history has been a nightmare of Christian-on-Christian killing, including the 30 Years' War, in which an estimated 7.5 million people--one-third of the European population at the time--died owing to Catholic-versus-Protestant slaughter. England's history is full of Protestants murdering Catholics; France's history is full of Catholics murdering Protestants; Spain's history is full of Christians murdering Jews. Pretty much all of Europe is to blame for the Crusades, in which Christians murdered Muslims. This inventory could go on at considerable length. King Olaf Tryggvason's declaration from about the year 1000--"all Norway will be Christian or die!"--sums it up.

So is faith bad? The fact that religions preach love, but often generate violence, cannot be dismissed as a minor imperfection.
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Despite your individual religion, do you believe religion in general has done more harm than good or the other way around? I think both points could be argued for, but, ultimately, either religion does more good or more bad to the world.Would the World Be Safer Without Religion? Faith makes people want to kill each... more