afeldelalande: big opinel in Lausanne rafeldelalande: big opinel in Lausanne Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 9 horas atrás photograph-y: Ralf Grossek photograph-y: Ralf Grossek Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 9 horas atrás Michael Hastings Sent Email About FBI Probe Hours Before Death |... Michael Hastings Sent Email About FBI Probe Hours Before Death | HuffPost Media By Melissa Jeltsen June 22, 2013 Hours before dying in a fiery car crash, award-winning journalist Michael Hastings sent an email to his colleagues, warning that federal authorities were interviewing his friends and that he needed to go “off the rada[r]” for a bit. The email was sent around 1 p.m. on Monday, June 17. At 4:20 a.m. the following morning, Hastings died when his Mercedes, traveling at high speeds, smashed into a tree and caught on fire. He was 33. Hastings sent the email to staff at BuzzFeed, where he was employed, but also blind-copied a friend, Staff Sgt. Joseph Biggs, on the message. Biggs, who Hastings met in 2008 when he was embedded in his unit in Afghanistan, forwarded the email to KTLA, who posted it online on Saturday. Here’s the email, with the recipients’ names redacted. Subject: FBI Investigation, re: NSA Hey (redacted names) — the Feds are interviewing my “close friends and associates.” Perhaps if the authorities arrive “BuzzFeed GQ,” er HQ, may be wise to immediately request legal counsel before any conversations or interviews about our news-gathering practices or related journalism issues. Also: I’m onto a big story, and need to go off the rada[r] for a bit. All the best, and hope to see you all soon. Michael Rumors that the FBI was investigating Hastings began the day after his death, with a couple of mysterious WikiLeaks tweets. In a rare move, the FBI issued a statement denying that Hastings was under investigation. Hastings, an accomplished war correspondent and sharp political reporter, was best known for writing a critical Rolling Stone profile of General Stanley McChrystal that led to his resignation. It’s unclear what “big story” Hastings was working on prior to his death, but it might have to do with yet another military bigwig, this time retired general David Petraeus. The LA Times reports that Hastings was researching a story about a privacy lawsuit brought by Jill Kelley, the Florida socialite who took center stage in the Petraeus cheating scandal, against the Department of Defense and the FBI. According to a person close to Kelley, the paper reports, Hastings had plans to meet a representative of hers to discuss the case next week. Copyright © 2013 TheHuffingtonPost, Inc. Photo: Michael Hastings. (Courtesy of Blue Rider Press/Penguin) Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 9 horas atrás thepeoplesrecord: TW: Torture - US steps up efforts to break... thepeoplesrecord: TW: Torture - US steps up efforts to break Guantanamo hunger strike June 22, 2013 Increasingly brutal tactics are being used in an attempt to break the hunger strike by detainees at Guantánamo Bay, according to fresh testimony from the last British resident still held in the camp. Shaker Aamer claims that the US authorities are systematically making the regime more hardline to try to defuse the strike, which now involves almost two-thirds of the detainees. Techniques include making cells “freezing cold” to accentuate the discomfort of those on hunger strike and the introduction of “metal-tipped” feeding tubes, which Aamer said were forced into inmates’ stomachs twice a day and caused detainees to vomit over themselves. The 46-year-old from London tells of one detainee who was admitted to hospital 10 days ago after a nurse had pushed the tube into his lungs rather than his stomach, causing him later to cough up blood. Aamer also alleges that some nurses at Guantánamo Bay are refusing to wear their name tags in order to prevent detainees registering abuse complaints against staff. Speaking last week from the camp in Cuba, exactly four months after he joined the hunger strike, Aamer said: “The administration is getting ever more angry and doing everything they can to break our hunger strike. Honestly, I wish I was dead.” The momentum behind efforts to release Aamer – who has spent more than 11 years without trial inside the camp – mounted sharply last week with David Cameron raising the issue directly with the US president, Barack Obama, during the G8 summit in Northern Ireland. On Wednesday, in a response to a parliamentary question about what had been discussed by the two leaders, Cameron revealed that his next step would be to write to Obama about the “specifics of the case and everything that we can do to expedite it”. He added: “Clearly, President Obama wants to make progress on this issue and we should help him in every way that we can with respect to this individual.” The prime minister’s comments are the most positive indication to date that Aamer will eventually be freed – he has been cleared for release twice since 2007. Clive Stafford Smith, the director of the legal charity Reprieve, who passed a transcript of his conversation with Aamer to the Observer, said: “These gruesome new details show just how bad things are in Guantánamo. The whole thing is at breaking point. Clearly the US military is under enormous pressure and doing everything it can to hurt the men and break the hunger strike.” Although the military initially denied that there was a hunger strike inside Guantanámo, it now concedes that, of the 166 detainees, 104 are on hunger strike and 44 are being force-fed. Aamer also documents his declining health and how the camp’s regime deliberately inflates the weight of detainees on hunger strike. Aamer, who has permission to live in the UK indefinitely because his wife is a British national, said: “They said I was 160lb, but I was 154lb a few days ago. Unless there has been a miracle, my weight has not gone up without eating. But they cheat by adding shackles and sometimes even pressing down as they do it to add to your weight. “If you have a medical standard for when a detainee should be force-fed for his own health, then force-feed him when it can still save his health. Don’t wait until his body is so harmed by the lack of food that all you are protecting is the US military – from the harm of a prisoner dying for a principle.” Aamer describes his daily diet at Guantánamo as a cup of tea or two each day with a low-calorie sweetener and occasionally an Ocean Spray powder mix that has 10 calories – enough to give an energy boost. Source Photo Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 9 horas atrás Photo Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 10 horas atrás lapetitecole: Studio P. Delbo Le papillon de tulle, Paris vers... lapetitecole: Studio P. Delbo Le papillon de tulle, Paris vers 1930. Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 10 horas atrás "[A] new group of moderate Republican senators proposed doubling the number of border guards to..." “[A] new group of moderate Republican senators proposed doubling the number of border guards to 40,000 in a “human fence” to secure the southern border with Mexico.” - Immigration reform: deal inches closer as Republicans propose ‘human fence’ That’s considered moderate. Seems a bit unnecessary considering net migration from Mexico is essentially zero, but I doubt that matters to these “moderates”. (via theamericanbear) Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 10 horas atrás timeless-couture: Hanna Ben Abdesslem photographed by Hans... timeless-couture: Hanna Ben Abdesslem photographed by Hans Feurer for Antidote “The Street Issue” Spring/Summer 2013 Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 10 horas atrás mpdrolet: Katrin Korfmann mpdrolet: Katrin Korfmann Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 10 horas atrás The Sleepwalker by Bex Finch “My father was diagnosed... © Bex Finch © Bex Finch © Bex Finch © Bex Finch © Bex Finch © Bex Finch © Bex Finch © Bex Finch The Sleepwalker by Bex Finch “My father was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease in December 2007; he was 59. In 2009 I began capturing portraits, both of my father as his disease progresses and of myself coping with the reality of his condition. The Sleepwalker’s self-portraits are an attempt to understand what he is going through: feeling increasingly lost, directionless, and disconnected from his surroundings, and living with the fact that it will only get worse. Through solitary self-portraits at dawn, I’ve used light as a device to convey the stark separation between myself and my father. I see his frustration with feeling “in the dark,” and in his eyes the struggle to find clarity. I emulate this struggle in my self-portraits, as well as my own desire to make sense of something unfathomable; that is, the loss of personhood. I call the series The Sleepwalker as it seems that that is what my father is becoming — an emotionless individual wandering through space and time, perpetually divorced from life happening around him. I like to think of this series as a legacy to his life, cut short but beautiful all the same. It is very much a work in progress.” — Bex Finch Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 11 horas atrás inneroptics: Edmund Teske inneroptics: Edmund Teske Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 11 horas atrás mpdrolet: James B. Knight mpdrolet: James B. Knight Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 11 horas atrás castingcalls: Malaika Firth @ NYMM castingcalls: Malaika Firth @ NYMM Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 11 horas atrás lu-moss: isa arfen fw 13 lu-moss: isa arfen fw 13 Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 11 horas atrás la-beaute—de-pandore: Ana Casas Broda Kinderwunsch. la-beaute—de-pandore: Ana Casas Broda Kinderwunsch. Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 11 horas atrás nuzz: Wonderfully weird Austin, Texas. By: Matt Nuzzaco Matthew Brush and I dragged a Profoto 7B + beauty dish onto dirty 6th St at 2:30am to shoot street portraits. It was an interesting and chaotic experience. nuzz: Wonderfully weird Austin, Texas. 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(© ebaujard • Instagram) “Mass celebrations for Mohammed Assaf in Ramallah, Gaza, Nazareth and Jerusalem tonight are breaking the shackles of imposed separation.” — Joseph Dana, June 22, 2013 Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 13 horas atrás “Raise your keffiyeh, raise it!” “Raise your keffiyeh, raise it!” Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 14 horas atrás sirilaf: primitive behavior, frank yamrus sirilaf: primitive behavior, frank yamrus Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 14 horas atrás The Flute Lesson by Jules Cyrille Cavé The Flute Lesson by Jules Cyrille Cavé Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 15 horas atrás Photo Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 15 horas atrás “Eine” by Marili Andre “Eine” by Marili Andre Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 15 horas atrás Pomegranate Heart by Aaron Robinson Pomegranate Heart by Aaron Robinson Compartilhar Marcar como não lido Curtir 15 horas atrás Israel used Palestinian minors as human shields, detain and... Israel used Palestinian minors as human shields, detain and torture - UN | RT News June 20, 2013 Thousands of Palestinian children were systematically injured, tortured and used as human shields by Israel, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child reported. Israel’s foreign minister denied the report’s accusations, calling it “recycled old stuff.” During the 10-year period examined by UN human rights experts, up to 7,000 children aged 9 to 17 were arrested, interrogated and kept captive, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) said in its new report. At least 14 cases of abuse were reported to have taken place in the past three years. As conflict in the Gaza Strip and West Bank continues, children on both sides continue to be killed and wounded; however, the majority of victims are Palestinian. “Hundreds of Palestinian children have been killed and thousands injured over the reporting period as a result of the state party military operations, especially in Gaza where the state party proceeded to [conduct] air and naval strikes on densely populated areas with a significant presence of children, thus disregarding the principles of proportionality and distinction,” Reuters reported, citing the CRC’s report. It was revealed that the IDF used Palestinian children to enter potentially dangerous buildings, forcing them to stand as human shields to discourage stone-throwing at military vehicles and troops. “Almost all those using children as human shields and informants have remained unpunished and the soldiers convicted for having forced at gunpoint a 9-year-old child to search bags suspected of containing explosives only received a suspended sentence of three months and were demoted,” the watchdog’s panel of 18 independent experts said. Throwing stones at soldiers of Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is the most common felony for which underage Palestinians are taken to prison – convicted Palestinian minors face penalties of up to 20 years in jail, the CRC reported. “Palestinian children arrested by [Israeli] military and police are systematically subject to degrading treatment, and often to acts of torture, are interrogated in Hebrew, a language they did not understand, and sign confessions in Hebrew in order to be released,” the report said. Children are fitted with leg chains and shackles to appear before military courts, and are often held in solitary confinement. The committee blames Israel’s “long-standing occupation” of Palestinian territory for the “severe and continuous violations of the rights of Palestinian children and their families.” Many Palestinian children are denied birth certificates, health care and education, as well as basic needs such as clean water. Israel – which disputes the international stance that its West Bank settlements are illegal – denied the accusations. The Israeli Foreign Ministry accused the UN report of “recycling old stuff” that carries “no importance.” “If someone simply wants to magnify their political bias and political bashing of Israel not based on a new report, on work on the ground, but simply recycling old stuff, there is no importance in that,” Reuters quoted Foreign Ministry spokesperson Yigal Palmor as saying. According to Palmor, officials from the ministry and the military cooperated with UNICEF in March for its work on the report. He claimed the effort was aimed at improving the treatment of Palestinian minors in Israeli custody. “Israel will study the conclusions and will work to implement them through ongoing cooperation with UNICEF, whose work we value and respect,” he said back then. Copyright © 2013 Autonomous Nonprofit Organization “TV-Novosti”. 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