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Related: About this forum13th Anniversary of Guantanamo and our 2nd annual anti-torture video contest
One of last year's winner
for the last 10 years our little peace group has been protesting US torture and Guantanamo and have been protesting
St Thomas Univ. Law Professor Robert Delahunty who was Bush legal council and co-wrote the pre-torture memo.
Anyhow,, after trying for so many years to get others educated and involved in speaking out, the group
decided to have a video contest for the social media savvy world (aka young people) .
We having a our 2nd annual video contest. Anyone with some computer skills and some time can make a very short video that could win $ 500.00 dollars.
Last year we had a young kid from Indonesia send in a video.
But a guy from Germany won with twin toddlers debating US use of torture.
You can see the videos here to get an idea: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqhCP_wOpPVF0umlss49MkQ
So you have until MARCH 1ST to submit your video
Prizes
$500 Jury Prizes
in Serious and Satirical Categories
$300 Audience Favorite Prizes
in the same two categories (see Rules)
http://tacklingtorturevideocontest.webs.com/
Tackling Torture at the Top (T3), a committee of Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) announces a video contest on the subject of torture and torture accountability. (See Contest Rules for rules, deadlines and prizes.)
Despite US and international law prohibiting the use of torture the US has used torture, often euphemistically called enhanced interrogation techniques, in its so-called War on Terror. Despite the law, despite documented proof that such efforts produce inadmissable evidence, false information and false confessions, and despite the blowback of such efforts, the US continues to shield the lawbreakers--both those who committed and those who authorized torture--by Looking forward, not backward, and there is evidence that such techniques continue to be used and falsely justified.
** Tackling Torture at the Top, through this contest, hopes to produce entertaining and informative videos that contradict this harmful and inhumane view, educate the public, raise questions about the direction of our foreign policy and our use of the military, and by so doing, give the public the awareness and courage to rein in our countrys out of control security apparatus.
ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)own languages...
Twins are regularly reported to invent languages of their own, unintelligible to others. These languages are known as autonomous languages, cryptophasia or idioglossia.
Despite current belief, this is not a rare phenomenon. Autonomous languages exist in about 40% of all twins, but often disappear soon.
In this study, nine autonomous languages are compared: the circumstances in which they emerge, how these languages relate to the parents' language (the model language) and how they are structured. The prototypical situation is one in which two or more close siblings (not necessarily twins) grow up closely together during the language acquisition period. If an adult model language is frequently absent, the children use each other as a model and acquire the language imperfectly. The language may stabilise at that level.
If a model is completely absent, the children probably do not create a language. In all cases known, the language consists of onomatopoeic expressions, some invented words, but for the greatest part of words from the adult language adopted to the constrained phonological possibilities of young children.
These words being hardly recognizable, the language may turn out to be completely unintelligible to speakers of the model languages, but they resemble each other in that they lack morphology and that word order is based on pragmatic principles such as saliency and the semantic scope of words. Neither the structure of the languages nor its emergence can be explained by other than situational factors.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3434134
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)...
A red tractor idles in the courtyard of Dr. Bruce Jessens massive $1.2 million home south of Spokane. Pillars and stone arches line the entryways. Red ceramic tiles cover the roof of the estate. When the former Fairchild Air Force Base psychologist and now-infamous architect of the CIAs brutal interrogation program steps out, he freezes for a moment before realizing I am just a reporter. Hes a little on edge.
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http://www.inlander.com/Bloglander/archives/2014/12/19/face-to-face-with-spokanes-cia-torture-architect
I wonder if the Germans were proud of having their killer scientists as local personalities back in the 40's?