There’s this. Reuters posts it with no comment, as will I.
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2013-06-12
Source: reuters
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Source: dailykos.com
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2013-06-11
I don’t feel like I can really interact with that average, everyday person. I get too frustrated, because A) they don’t realize what’s going on over there. And B) they don’t care.
— Former drone operator shares with NBC News, after getting a diploma that gives him a scorecard of killing more than 1,600 people.
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The lady in the red dress
“It shows one peaceful protester, dressed as if for a summer garden party, standing up for basic human and green values against an arrogant and mighty state.”
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2013-06-10
What I’m suggesting is we change the way we think about money, and submit ourselves to an economy not driven by dollars but by love, integrity, community and compassion.
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Pierre Carreau's "Aquaviva"
The beauty of waves.
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People say that drone strikes are like mortar attacks. Well, artillery doesn’t see this. Artillery doesn’t see the results of their actions. It’s really more intimate for us, because we see everything.
— A former drone operator says he’s killed about 1,626 people.
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Brandon Bryant says he was sitting in a chair at a Nevada Air Force base operating the camera when his team fired two missiles from their drone at three men walking down a road halfway around the world in Afghanistan. The missiles hit all three targets, and Bryant says he could see the aftermath on his computer screen – including thermal images of a growing puddle of hot blood. “The guy that was running forward, he’s missing his right leg,” he recalled. “And I watch this guy bleed out and, I mean, the blood is hot.” As the man died his body grew cold, said Bryant, and his thermal image changed until he became the same color as the ground. “I can see every little pixel.
— A former Air Force drone operator talks to Richard Engel of NBC News
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Force feeding breaks international law. Well, it's happening at Guantanamo Bay.
And, it’s being done to 41 prisoners there as of today, per Gitmo reporter Carol Rosenberg.
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Tornado tourism thrives even during deadly season
(Photo courtesy Jennifer Giordano)
“Tornado tourism” may sound strange or even distasteful in light of deadly twisters in the past few weeks, but it’s a thriving travel niche, and business is booming.
Sigh. Tornado tourism?
Source: nbcnews.com
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2013-06-09
Source: markcoatney
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[The NSA is] intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior in the world known to them. […] I don’t want to live in a world where there’s no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity. […] What they’re doing [is] an existential threat to democracy
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You can’t wait around for someone else to act. I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.
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Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I realized that I was part of something that was doing far more harm than good.
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The U.S. can say I have broken the Espionage Act and helped our enemies, but that can be used against anyone who points out how massive and invasive the system has become”.
