Showing posts with label torture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label torture. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
A Different Take on Zero Dark Thirty
And its stance on torture: The Kidd Vs. ZERO DARK THIRTY. Diverging opinions. I'll have to watch the movie and see for myself.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Items of Interest, 18 December 2012
Newtown Tragedy Exposes our Deep Societal Flaws Again by Chris Schumerth
Debt-Free Permaculture Farming with Joel Salatin
Announcing 2013 BALLE Local Economy Fellows
More on the Issues Raises by Zero Dark Thirty:
An All-American Nightmare by Peter Van Buren
Rendition, Zero Dark Thirty and the brutal reality of Britain's secret services
Kathryn Bigelow's film about the killing of Osama bin Laden does not touch the reality of what occurred in the 'war on terror'
Diet and Health:
Why Stretching is Bad For You
Latest in Paleo: Perfect Health Diet Q&A with Paul Jaminet (follow-up to episode 64 - mp3)
High-Fat, Low-Carb Ketogenic Diet For Cancer Featured On The 700 Club
Feminism:
RONDA ROUSEY MEETS LIZ CARMOUCHE IN FIRST UFC WOMEN'S TITLE FIGHT AT UFC 157
Dana White on why Ronda Rousey will headline UFC 157: 'She's the champ'
Entertainment:
CS Video Interview: Jack Reacher Director Christopher McQuarrie
Discovery Series American Guns Cancelled
NBC Sports Network Cancels "Gun Programming" - 3-Gun Nation
Debt-Free Permaculture Farming with Joel Salatin
Announcing 2013 BALLE Local Economy Fellows
More on the Issues Raises by Zero Dark Thirty:
An All-American Nightmare by Peter Van Buren
Rendition, Zero Dark Thirty and the brutal reality of Britain's secret services
Kathryn Bigelow's film about the killing of Osama bin Laden does not touch the reality of what occurred in the 'war on terror'
Diet and Health:
Why Stretching is Bad For You
Latest in Paleo: Perfect Health Diet Q&A with Paul Jaminet (follow-up to episode 64 - mp3)
High-Fat, Low-Carb Ketogenic Diet For Cancer Featured On The 700 Club
Feminism:
RONDA ROUSEY MEETS LIZ CARMOUCHE IN FIRST UFC WOMEN'S TITLE FIGHT AT UFC 157
Dana White on why Ronda Rousey will headline UFC 157: 'She's the champ'
Entertainment:
CS Video Interview: Jack Reacher Director Christopher McQuarrie
Discovery Series American Guns Cancelled
NBC Sports Network Cancels "Gun Programming" - 3-Gun Nation
Monday, December 17, 2012
Friday, December 14, 2012
Some More Critical Reflections on Zero Dark Thirty
Fabius Maximus: Bin Laden won, with our assistance. Our applause shows the scale of his victory.
Save The Cat, Kill The Prisoners by Noah Millman
Zero Conscience in Zero Dark Thirty
Related:
Report finds harsh CIA interrogations ineffective
The third trailer for the movie:
Empire
JoBlo
HuffPo
Save The Cat, Kill The Prisoners by Noah Millman
Zero Conscience in Zero Dark Thirty
Related:
Report finds harsh CIA interrogations ineffective
The third trailer for the movie:
Empire
JoBlo
HuffPo
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Advocacy of Torture?
I will probably watch the movie, though I am wary of it being a tool for cheering the National Government's GWOT and all that it entails. I have read that Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal have depicted torture as a matter of fact, without passing judgment, showing that it was necessary to get the information that lead to the discovery of Osama Bin Laden. But in doing so, does the movie justify the use of torture, by claiming that in this instance it was effective in attaining its purpose?
Will the New Osama bin Laden Film "Zero Dark Thirty" Rehabilitate Torture? by Adam Serwer
Will the New Osama bin Laden Film "Zero Dark Thirty" Rehabilitate Torture? by Adam Serwer
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Items of Interest, 1 May 2012
Gianna Jessen Abortion Survivor in Australia (full)
Balancing the Universal and the Particular in American History
by Bradley J. Birzer, TIC Co-editor
White House: Drone Strikes Ethical and Legal
U.S. Doesn't Need To Know A Person's Name to Kill Him in a Drone Strike
Socratic and Secular Irony
A review of A Case for Irony by Jonathan Lear.
Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, American Dystopia, Fiction or Reality?
America the Possible: A Manifesto, Part II
by James Gustave Speth
This is fine as far as it goes, but it is a leftist communitarian vision and incomplete, as a result. It is missing that aspect of the natural law which pertains to family and community formation, and everything ordered to it (such as sexual morality).
Rod Dreher, What Can I Know? Should I Know?
Former CIA Official Seeking to Confirm Efficacy of Torture Does The Opposite
Hrm... May Day March for Dignity and Resistance—Press Release
Open House at Tara Firma Farms, Saturday, May 5, 1-5 P.M.
Economics:
The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations
Relocalization:
Lights Out for the Territory by Charlotte Du Cann (EB)
Rob Hopkins: My TEDxExeter talk: ‘My town in Transition’
Erik Curren, Today, I’m running for city council
Catholic:
A Traditional Western Icon - From the Rheinau Psalter
Statement on China Commission Meeting
Laity "are called to participate with apostolic zeal in the evangelization of the Chinese people"
Al Mohler's Interview of Ross Douthat
Charity is not an emotion. Is the "ethics of care" dominated by compassion and emotion? And can compassion replace the order of charity? I find the study to be junk designed to make the less or non-religious look better than their "religious" peers.
Highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than are non-believers
EWTN interview on Fr. Joseph's Cause of Canonization
On Wednesday May 2, at 8 p.m. Eastern time, EWTN will broadcast a one-hour interview about Fr. Joseph Muzquiz, a priest of Opus Dei whose cause of canonization has begun in Boston.
Cistercian Spirituality and Emergence of the Coronation of the Virgin in the Late Middle Ages
Feminism:
Financial Return Of Medical Degree Negative For Women?
Kay Hymnowitz on Morning Joe, discussing the supposed "pay gap"
Diet and Health:
Quantum Nutrition Series: Is there a perfect diet?
What is Paleo?
MDA: Why Don't We Walk Anymore
Forgot the video from Mark Sisson's Primal Resource Guide:
Robb Wolf: Strength Training for BJJ – Episode 130 (mp3)
Fewer carbs short-term gets rid of liver fat
A healthy gut is the hidden key to weight loss
Robert Lustig: The Skinny on Obesity (Ep. 3): Hunger and Hormones- A Vicious Cycle
The Physical Challenge
History:
‘He contents the people wherever he goes’ Richard III: His Parliament and Government
The Participation of Women in the Anglo-Saxon World: Judith and The Wife’s Lament
Women’s Rights in Early England
From Other Worldly to Worldly: Materialism, Anomie, and the Decline of Catharism’s Charismatic Appeal
'The inordinate excess in apparel’: Sumptuary Legislation in Tudor England
In the Wake of the Treaty of Windsor: A Tale of Two Ladies
Rare Footage of Civil War Veterans Doing the Rebel Yell
Music:
Bill Monroe's Mandolin
11th Annual Independent Music Awards
A Spotlight On William Christie by Laura Osterlund
TV:
There's A New Sheriff In Town: 'Longmire'
NYC 22: How Long Before It’s Cancelled?
Park Min Young Reveals Photo from Set of "Dr. Jin"
Is the Japanese drama Jin (DramaWiki) based on the same source material? Seems like it. The Japanese drama was too fantastical, though subtitles would have helped my comprehension more; more thoughts on it here.
Misc:
Mel Gibson Calls Joe Eszterhas’ Anti-Semitic Accusations ‘Utter Fabrications’
Something with Tim Ferris: Japan: Fun in Tokyo & Kyoto
Legion Firearms LF-15d
Balancing the Universal and the Particular in American History
by Bradley J. Birzer, TIC Co-editor
White House: Drone Strikes Ethical and Legal
U.S. Doesn't Need To Know A Person's Name to Kill Him in a Drone Strike
Socratic and Secular Irony
A review of A Case for Irony by Jonathan Lear.
Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, American Dystopia, Fiction or Reality?
America the Possible: A Manifesto, Part II
by James Gustave Speth
This is fine as far as it goes, but it is a leftist communitarian vision and incomplete, as a result. It is missing that aspect of the natural law which pertains to family and community formation, and everything ordered to it (such as sexual morality).
Rod Dreher, What Can I Know? Should I Know?
Former CIA Official Seeking to Confirm Efficacy of Torture Does The Opposite
Hrm... May Day March for Dignity and Resistance—Press Release
Open House at Tara Firma Farms, Saturday, May 5, 1-5 P.M.
Economics:
The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations
Relocalization:
Lights Out for the Territory by Charlotte Du Cann (EB)
Rob Hopkins: My TEDxExeter talk: ‘My town in Transition’
Erik Curren, Today, I’m running for city council
Catholic:
A Traditional Western Icon - From the Rheinau Psalter
Statement on China Commission Meeting
Laity "are called to participate with apostolic zeal in the evangelization of the Chinese people"
Al Mohler's Interview of Ross Douthat
Charity is not an emotion. Is the "ethics of care" dominated by compassion and emotion? And can compassion replace the order of charity? I find the study to be junk designed to make the less or non-religious look better than their "religious" peers.
Highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than are non-believers
EWTN interview on Fr. Joseph's Cause of Canonization
On Wednesday May 2, at 8 p.m. Eastern time, EWTN will broadcast a one-hour interview about Fr. Joseph Muzquiz, a priest of Opus Dei whose cause of canonization has begun in Boston.
Cistercian Spirituality and Emergence of the Coronation of the Virgin in the Late Middle Ages
Feminism:
Financial Return Of Medical Degree Negative For Women?
Kay Hymnowitz on Morning Joe, discussing the supposed "pay gap"
Diet and Health:
Quantum Nutrition Series: Is there a perfect diet?
What is Paleo?
MDA: Why Don't We Walk Anymore
Forgot the video from Mark Sisson's Primal Resource Guide:
Robb Wolf: Strength Training for BJJ – Episode 130 (mp3)
Fewer carbs short-term gets rid of liver fat
A healthy gut is the hidden key to weight loss
Robert Lustig: The Skinny on Obesity (Ep. 3): Hunger and Hormones- A Vicious Cycle
The Physical Challenge
History:
‘He contents the people wherever he goes’ Richard III: His Parliament and Government
The Participation of Women in the Anglo-Saxon World: Judith and The Wife’s Lament
Women’s Rights in Early England
From Other Worldly to Worldly: Materialism, Anomie, and the Decline of Catharism’s Charismatic Appeal
'The inordinate excess in apparel’: Sumptuary Legislation in Tudor England
In the Wake of the Treaty of Windsor: A Tale of Two Ladies
Rare Footage of Civil War Veterans Doing the Rebel Yell
Music:
Bill Monroe's Mandolin
11th Annual Independent Music Awards
A Spotlight On William Christie by Laura Osterlund
TV:
There's A New Sheriff In Town: 'Longmire'
NYC 22: How Long Before It’s Cancelled?
Park Min Young Reveals Photo from Set of "Dr. Jin"
Is the Japanese drama Jin (DramaWiki) based on the same source material? Seems like it. The Japanese drama was too fantastical, though subtitles would have helped my comprehension more; more thoughts on it here.
Misc:
Mel Gibson Calls Joe Eszterhas’ Anti-Semitic Accusations ‘Utter Fabrications’
Something with Tim Ferris: Japan: Fun in Tokyo & Kyoto
Legion Firearms LF-15d
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
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