Adam Magazine on the Crazy Years

Looting, killing and raping -- by twisting their words they call it "empire"; and wherever they have created a wilderness they call it "peace" -- Tacitus

Wednesday, May 25

What Amnesty international says about our country.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Amnesty condemns US example on human rights: "'The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has become the gulag of our times, entrenching the practice of arbitrary and indefinite detention in violation of international law,' she said. ' Guantanamo evokes memories of Soviet repression.'
Ms Khan likened the Bush administration's practice of holding unregistered prisoners, or 'ghost detainees', at secret locations to tactics deployed in some Latin American countries.
The US government's use of dubious terms such as environmental manipulations, stress positions and sensory manipulation to describe the treatment of prisoners amounted to 'cynical attempts to redefine and sanitise torture', she said. She also criticised what she said was the UK's acceptance of intelligence derived by torture in certain circumstances.
'To say in a 21st-century democracy that torture is acceptable is to push us back to medieval ages,' she warned. "

Tuesday, May 10

This is all you need to know about George Lucas

There is a street on Skywalker Ranch called "Ewok Lane".