Posts from December 2014

Article posted 17 December 2014 Cops killed man at Walmart, then interrogated girlfriend [via Facebook] posted 3pm

Beavercreek Goddam Everything about this story is soul crushingly horrible. #ACAP #AbolishThePolice

Cops killed man at Walmart, then interrogated girlfriend

After killing a man at an Ohio Walmart, police interrogated his girlfriend, accusing her of lying, threatening her with jail time and suggesting she could be on drugs, according to a video posted on The Guardian’s website.

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Article posted 17 December 2014 December 17, 2014 at 05:48PM [via Facebook] posted 3pm

Thucydides, Book VII. Damn, man. Just, damn.

Article posted 17 December 2014 Tortured Logic [via Facebook] posted 3pm

Tortured Logic

America bends over backwards

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Article posted 17 December 2014 CIA Says It Will No Longer Use Vaccine Programs As Cover [via Facebook] posted 2pm

CIA announces it will stop deceiving people under cover of vaccination programs for intelligence purposes. Of course we can trust what they are telling us about what they do, because itâ€™s not like the CIA has ever tried to deceive anyone about what they do.

CIA Says It Will No Longer Use Vaccine Programs As Cover

Answering health experts’ complaints that using vaccination programs for spying had hurt international efforts to fight disease, the CIA says it has stopped the practice.

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Article posted 17 December 2014 War That Killed Achilles, The [via Facebook] posted 1pm / revised 1pm

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War That Killed Achilles, The

The dramatic events of the Trojan War are legendâ€”but Homerâ€™s epic poem, Iliad, is devoted entirely to a few mundane weeks at the end of a…

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Article posted 16 December 2014 What Cop T-Shirts Tell Us About Police Culture [via Facebook] posted 3pm

Welcome to police subculture. ACAP. #AbolishThePolice

What Cop T-Shirts Tell Us About Police Culture

Earlier this week, an anonymous public defender sent Gothamist this photo of an NYPD warrant squad officer wearing a t-shirt with a pretty disturbing quote from Ernest Hemingway: The Village Voice reports that the quote was also printed on…

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Article posted 16 December 2014 Policing is a Dirty Job, But Nobody’s Gotta Do It: 6 Ideas for a Cop-Free World [via Facebook] posted 2pm / revised 2pm

This is a mixture of very good, middling and horrible suggestions. But I just want to pause for a moment to reflect on the fact that this is an article that was just published in Rolling Stone magazine. #AbolishThePolice

Policing is a Dirty Job, But Nobody’s Gotta Do It: 6 Ideas for a Cop-Free World

As public outrage at police brutality grows, we take a look at a few of the practicable, real-world alternatives to the modern police system.

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Article posted 16 December 2014 Taliban ‘kill 100’ at Pakistan school [via Facebook] posted 10am

http://ift.tt/1yUIRGo War, all war, is a hideous evil and a crime against humanity.

Taliban ‘kill 100’ at Pakistan school

At least 100 people, most of them children, have been killed in a Taliban assault on an army-run school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials say.

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Article posted 16 December 2014 December 16, 2014 at 11:31AM [via Facebook] posted 9am

Thucydides, Book VI. Things are not looking good.

Article posted 15 December 2014 December 15, 2014 at 06:50PM [via Facebook] posted 4pm

VRG for tonight rescheduled to next Monday under pressure of finals and technical difficulties at SFL. Thus, more time to read about dinosaurs.

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