Tuesday 9 September 2014

Links, Tuesday 9th Sept

"Movies tend to portray those hand signals as the key to a stealthy night operation, but hand signals generally aren't visible at night. However, hand signals are great when your ears get ruined by tinnitus:

"Yeah, those cool hand signals you see in movies? They aren't to make us stealthier during assaults or whatever -- they're because combat deafens people," Jerry says." Cracked

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"While the inability for same-sex couples to marry has pushed many to label themselves “second-class citizens”, I find it difficult to completely sympathize with their plight – and the money they’ve spent to end it – when so many LGBT youth are living and dying in the streets everyday with no end in sight." Guardian

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"In modern America we believe racism to be the property of the uniquely villainous and morally deformed, the ideology of trolls, gorgons and orcs. We believe this even when we are actually being racist." NY Times

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"With the condescension of posterity, it’s easy to dismiss the British colonists in Van Diemen’s Land as monsters, genocidal racists carrying out atrocities for reasons unfathomable to liberal-minded folk of the twenty-first century. Yet, precisely as Israeli officials explained the assault on Gaza as a defensive reaction to Hamas’ rockets, the Tasmanian settlers saw themselves as victims, driven to violence by the terror inflicted by the natives." Jacobin

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Another awesome policy which I'm sure will continue to be discussed right up until election day and then die a quiet, mysterious death.

"Personal possession of all drugs should be decriminalised, the Liberal Democrats announced today." Politics.co.uk

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"Market cap to GDP (Buffet’s favorite measure of market valuation) now stands at roughly double it’s pre-bubble mean, second only to the dot com bubble (a level reached once in recorded history and now less than 20% away)." Monkey Mind

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"The videos also show that police claims they used lethal force as a last resort are clearly false... In fact, the jets of water are shown to be aimed towards the rear of the lead group, pushing them towards the waiting line of Tactical Response cops armed with R5 rifles. Around the same time, stun grenades also go off towards the rear of the protesters. In effect, the miners are clearly seen to run away from these non-lethal attacks towards the TRT." Daily Maverick

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Does anyone else notice an issue out of place here...?

"As part of the frontbench team of the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, Malhotra will work on issues including sexual violence, female genital mutilation, forced marriage, trafficking and prostitution." Guardian

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"In the past two months, five sex workers have been murdered in Cape Town. Three of the victims were under 26. Advocacy organisations partly blame the continued criminalization of sex work." Groundup

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Wooohoo!

"Key populations are considered the most at risk for HIV infection and transmission, and are often discriminated against by communities and by health-care workers.

The new clinic - run by the NGO, TB/HIV Care Association in partnership with Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (Sweat) - provides screening for diseases, HIV and Aids testing, sexually transmitted infections, and offers counselling and viral check-ups among other services." IOL

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