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Engineer - Giuseppe Di Stasio
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The Costume Evolution Of Captain America.
Okay so the Exoskeleton of yesteryear 1995 kills me, but nothing tops Nomad, not now, not ever. He looks like he just stepped out of Saturday Night Fever. Gee, if they hadn’t put that that look premiered in the 70’s, I would have never guessed. ;)
The only thing that makes the Nomad costume better is knowing that Steve designed the costume himself. *snerk*
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5 Civil Rights Movement Myths You Learned In History Class
The human brain doesn’t handle complexity very well. You can see this most dramatically in how we read and understand history.
#5. Myth: Slavery Ended In 1865
We mean, of course it did. The Civil War ended that year, while the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect and spin-kicked slavery right in the dick, and that was that. You learn that shit in kindergarten.
The thing is, simply winning a war and saying “Slavery is abolished, assholes!” doesn’t make it stop any more than telling your cat not to use your shoe as a toilet stops her from doing it. The South’s economy (and occasionally geography) was in ruins after the war, and they weren’t exactly thrilled about giving away a significant chunk of their workforce. As such, they didn’t so much do away with slavery after the end of the Civil War as they did something much more American: They justrebranded the operation, albeit on a smaller scale.
'forced independent contractors.’
The years after the war saw both black and white criminal activity increase, which was a problem, because most prisons had been destroyed during the war. The states took a look at the massive influx of prisoners in their hands, surreptitiously glanced at each other … and started leasing them to wealthy planters and industry big shots as free, forced labor.This system, known as convict lease, quickly became one of the most lubed-up loopholes in history. Some of the criminals caught up in the machine were white, but an estimated 80 to 90 percent were black, because of fucking course they were. Many former slaves found that freedom was the worst thing that could have happened to them, as the police got hold of them and piled on enough arbitrary charges to put them into “totally not slavery” forced labor for years, toiling under essentially the same assholes who had owned them during their slave days.
“If you love someone, set them free. If you force them to come back shackled, kicking, and screaming, it was meant to be.”
The conditions were generally much worse, too. There was a lot less financial incentive to keep a prisoner alive than a slave, so living conditions of prisoners under convict lease tended to be abysmal. In some cases, the death rate was as high as 40 percent. But the public was okay with it, because hey, that’s what they get for committing crimes! We’re not exploiting a racial and economic class, we’re punishing the bad guys!
We can say that convict lease ended precisely fucking never. Establishments like the Louisiana State Penitentiary are still employing the model today, and are cool enough with what they do that they let a camera crew record their operation in 2015.
#4. Myth: Malcolm X Was A Violent Radical, While Martin Luther King, Jr. Was All About Pacifism
History sees Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. as two sides of the same coin. Malcolm X was the violence-preaching militant radical, and Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Gandhi-like pacifist, though both were pushing for the same outcome. These days, we always tend to put activists into one of those two molds, and only offer public approval for the latter.
Reality, however, is always more complicated. For all of his militant talk, Malcolm X did not advocate attacking the government. He urged that black people should be ready to defend themselves violently if need be, but never once by initiating violence. Sure, he used scary-sounding rhetoric, but it was never “Kill the whites to affect change”. Rather, it was, “We’re not afraid to fight back,” or in his own words, “Put your hands on us thinking that we’re going to turn the other cheek – we’ll put you to death just like that.”
Meanwhile, Martin Luther King, Jr. wasn’t quite as averse to guns as his popular legacy would have us believe. While he certainly did organize all of those nonviolent protests you know him for, he fully bought into the idea of “just in case” firepower. Remember, King was a man of the South, fighting against acts of terrorism against his person and his people. In the early period of his leadership, his household could be accurately called an arsenal. It wasn’t unheard of for a visitor to sit on a chair, only to be warned at the last second they were about to place their ass on a couple of guns. After his house was bombed in 1956, King even tried to get a concealed carry permit, though this went about as well as you’d expect. King also preached what he practiced, incidentally; his writings acknowledge the right to armed self-defense.
Once again, please don’t take this as some kind of simplistic “So King was the violent one, and X was the peace-seeker!” switcheroo.
#3. Myth: The Black Panthers Were A Bunch Of Armed Male Radicals
Since they are best known for showing up at the California Assembly carrying rifles or for getting into a shootout with the police four days after a police raid killed one of their leaders, many people assume the Black Panthers were hyper-radical armed terrorists who wanted nothing more than to fill the streets with rivers of white men’s blood.
And sure, the Panthers loved their guns. Their views on guns would make today’s NRA membersknock themselves out with a thunderous agreement orgasm. But as was the case with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, we tend to remember activists by their single most headline-grabbing traits. For example, when you picture a black panther, you’re probably imagining a guy in a beret and paramilitary garb:
So the fact that, by the end of the 1960s, women made up the majority of the Black Panther movement would blow most people’s minds. They even had a female leader in Elaine Brown, who took over in 1974. While it would be wildly inaccurate to claim that her gender was never an issue, sexism did little to dampen her success. Under Brown’s watch, the Panthers not only continued their famed resistance against police brutality, but also helped elect the first black mayor of Oakland, CA and built 300 houses for displaced people.
Oh yeah, that was the other thing. The papers love those photos of panthers standing around looking scary with guns, and there was certainly no shortage of “Kill the cops” rhetoric. But in black neighborhoods, they were known for their “survival programs” – providing health clinics and handing out food, encouraging members of the community to volunteer and supply services that the government had no interest in supplying. Among the more famous of their many volunteer-based projects was the “breakfast in schools” program in the 1960s, which fed about 10,000 kids every day for a decade before the government got around to implementing the same thing nationwide.
#2. Myth: Segregation Was Solely A Southern Issue
The story goes that after slavery was abolished in the South, there was another century of segregation in those states until that practice also begrudgingly ended. But throughout, it’s seen as a problem that exists below the Mason-Dixon Line.
The reality? Well, there is an old Civil Rights Movement truism:
“In the South, the white man doesn’t care how close you get, as long as you don’t get too high. In the North, he doesn’t care how high you get, as long as you don’t get too close.”
The North earned the saying by truly jumping on the systematic segregation train in the 1930s. The federal government built a phenomenal amount of public housing all across the North, to the point where the suburbs this created became the most popular housing in the country. But there was one tiny problem with the project. It didn’t matter if it was Pittsburgh, New York, Baltimore, Chicago, or San Francisco, the rules were always the same: Black people were forbidden from buying. Instead, they found themselves shoved in increasingly large numbers into the overcrowded inner-city confines which white Americans were evacuating.
Places like Chicago used blockbusting, a process whereby real estate agents would use the threat of incoming African Americans as a tool to get white tenants to leave their city blocks as quickly and cheaply as possible. The local governments introduced redlining, a practice in which a literal red line is drawn around a predominantly black neighborhood, which then gets filed into the “never offer financial services to these people” folder. Ghettos are always man-made.
Predictably, the housing segregation created segregation in pretty much every aspect of life – schools, playgrounds, grocery stores, clinics, and more all tended to be of lower quality where they lived. Thus, migrants from the South quickly found that the North was little more than a slightly different flavor of terrible.
#1. Myth: The Civil Rights Movement Was A Resounding, Permanent Victory
Yes, the changes were huge and profound. Segregation is now illegal. We have a black dude in the White House. If a celebrity says something racist, their career is over (for a couple of years, anyway, depending on their performance at the box office). Sure, you get a questionable police shooting every once in a while, but if anything, that emphasizes the horrible shit they used to get away with.
But there is a very good argument to be made that while overt racism went out of fashion, the actual elements which made life harder for minorities are all still there – they just once again rebranded themselves to be less overt.
Black people are still much more likely to live in poverty, be the target of police brutality, and have higher mortality rates. African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites for the same offenses. It’s a system that has evolved to the point where every example can be hand-waved away as having nothing to do with race while continuing to ruin black lives with brutal efficiency.
For a breakdown of how it works, let’s look at the most damning metric of all: education. The good news is that graduation rates for black students have increased hugely since the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954, which declared that separate schools for black and white students were unconstitutional. The bad news is that this decision, which was perhaps the biggest victory of the Civil Rights Movement, has been neutered and robbed of its power at every single turn.
Immediately after the ruling, private “segregation academies” started popping up, carefully priced so that they were inexpensive enough for white kids while being juuuuuust a tad too expensive for African Americans (incidentally, many of these schools are still thriving today). Meanwhile, channeling black populations into poor neighborhoods meant channeling them into underfunded schools (only this time everyone can say, “But no one is forcing them to live there!”).
How much of the school desegregation work has been undone? Well, in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement in the early ‘70s, only about a quarter of black kids in the South attended all-black schools (where minorities are at least 99% of the student body). Today it’s 53 percent. Nobody had to pass a law forcing it; they merely had to step aside and quietly let the market price them out.
So there remains a huge racial discrepancy between students’ graduation rates, minorities wind up with lower-paying jobs and thus end up in poorer neighborhoods, ensuring that their kids end up going to those same underfunded schools. And on and on it goes. But if you bring this up, invariably the first response will be, “Ugh, are you guys still complaining about this?”
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The NYPD Was Systematically Ticketing Legally Parked Cars for Millions of Dollars a Year- Open Data Just Put an End to It New York City is a complex place to drive. And when it comes to parking, there...
This could be the future if we’re not careful. This is what open data is all about
Researchers say that violence at home is an overlooked issue that deserves more international attention.
Domestic Violence Costs
Library is closed in my town
Couldn’t borrow a dvd from the library because the library is closed today. I didn’t know today was a federal holiday, but apparently it is. Also religious as I understand. Lots of atheists complaining now a days about there being a black history month don’t seem to say a peep about this religious holiday being federally recognized
Had to wait till 2:30 friggin AM yesterday to log into my twitter because PC glitch kept me out. That’s PCs for you. Even apple iphones work better
Decided to include a screen cap of the page
Notes on the disastrous Amnesty decision to decriminalize prostitution
The amnesty decision was wrong. Prostitution should not be decriminalized
Site > https://abolishprostitutionnow.wordpress.com/
Archive > http://archive.is/f3crf
site > https://amnestyaction.wordpress.com/
site > https://wolfwomanofnorth.wordpress.com/category/blog-feed/prostitution-abolition/
^^The two above links are sites and so it may not make a difference to archive them.
no amnesty for pimps > http://noamnestyforpimpsandjohns.com/ < is a site as well
Study shows decriminalizing sex trade increases trafficking and does not improve conditions for sex workers > http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/45198/1/Neumayer_Legalized_Prostitution_Increase_2012.pdf
^^Couldn't archive this one fsr
How does a pro-prostitution organisation who put under-aged girls into a brothel and who has been accused by police of keeping a brothel receive a human rights award?
> https://montanarablog.wordpress.com/2015/10/22/how-does-a-pro-prostitution-organisation-who-put-under-aged-girls-into-a-brothel-and-who-has-been-accused-by-police-of-keeping-a-brothel-receive-a-human-rights-award/
Archive > http://archive.is/99dyN
Why do so many leftists want sex work to be legal? > http://www.thenation.com/article/why-do-so-many-leftists-want-sex-work-be-new-normal/
Archive > http://archive.is/qzKsV
Link: Shit liberal feminists say. > http://www.feministcurrent.com/2015/11/04/shit-liberal-feminists-say-swerf/
Archive > http://archive.is/hQ7WA
Nordic model success in Sweden > http://justicewomen.com/cj_sweden.html
Archive > http://archive.is/ahHmq
^^Women suffer under decriminalisation or legalisation of prostitution.
There are significant numbers of foreign workers operating in the 340 brothels in NSW > https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/committee.nsf/0/545e0ced0ca425aeca257ef900185d16/$FILE/Final%20Report%20-%20Inquiry%20into%20the%20Regulation%20of%20Brothels.pdf
^^Couldn't archive this link
".20 yrs of deregulation..allowed organised crime 2 flourish,sex slavery 2 increase&vulnerable swers 2 be exploited" > http://www.governmentnews.com.au/2015/11/how-an-overhaul-of-nsw-sex-industry-could-help-councils/
Archive > http://archive.is/dQTgu
"..kidnapping, drugging &forcing them 2 have sex with men.. girls as young as 9 being trafficked.." > http://wwlp.com/2015/11/12/former-pimp-describes-horrors-of-mexico-sex-trade/
Archive > http://archive.is/Q2OOR
^^Former Pimp Describes Horrors Of The Sex Trade
How U.S. Military Bases In South Korea Fuel The Sex Industry > http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2015/11/06/how-u-s-bases-in-south-korea-viciously-fuel-the-sex-industry/
Archive > http://archive.is/yXkxL
Prostitution is male violence, a sexualized practice of dominance and control over marginalized women who are coerced with money & starvation
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Globilization And The Sex Trade: Trafficking And The Comodification Of Women And Children > http://sisyphe.org/spip.php?article965
Archive > http://archive.is/8aBRW
A tale Of Six Johns/who abused & killed sexworkers > https://kareningalasmith.com/2015/08/16/a-tale-of-six-johns/
Archive > http://archive.is/yxSdD
Website with more links, torture and sexual exploitation of women/in home > http://nonstatetorture.org/
^^Since this is a website, it makes little sense to archive it, but I do have to remember to archive the various links and data on it*****
Canadian Advocates For The Nordic Model: Letter to Amnesty > http://nonstatetorture.org/files/2214/4340/6115/CANMfinal.pdf
Pimps And Johns: In House Sexualized Torture > http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/SEN/Committee/412/lcjc/Briefs/C-36/SM_C-36_brief_JeanneSarson-LindaMacDonald_E.pdf
Decriminalizing prostitution in Brazil lead to this? > http://www.economist.com/node/21552201
Archive . http://archive.is/95GCB
If You Think Decriminalization Will Make Prostitution Safe Look At Germany's Mega Brothels > http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/02/if-you-think-decriminalisation-will-make-prostitution-safe-look-germanys-mega
Archive > http://archive.is/LWd5V
Statement By Prostitution Survivors And Those Who Have Been Harmed By The Sex Trade/ These are the voices of the women themselves > http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/02/if-you-think-decriminalisation-will-make-prostitution-safe-look-germanys-mega
Also same as this Archive > http://archive.is/LWd5V
New Report On Prostitution And Trafficking Of Native Women In Minnesota / Prostitution connected to colonialism, Majority of women in the sex trade are marginalized and exploited/ 92% want to get out of that life and need exit strategies, programs, alternatives to prostitution and social safety nets, education, whelfare, money home, job training, etc not decriminalization of the exploitation, go after the exploiters, the johns and pimps help the women get out > http://blog.amnestyusa.org/americas/new-report-on-prostitution-and-trafficking-of-native-women-in-minnesota/
Archive > http://archive.is/K12SR
Human Rights Violations Intrinsic To Prostitution > http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sex-trade-survivors-amnesty-wants-decriminalise-every-human-rights-violation-intrinsic-1514572
Archive > http://archive.is/i0FnL
Prostitution Is Sexual Violence > http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/sexual-offenses/prostitution-sexual-violence
This last one ^^ seems to lie behind some kind of membership or pay wall. I cannot archive the site per se but what is on it is as follows:
Page 1 of the Psychiatric Times
"Prostitution Is Sexual Violence"
Sexology, the study of sexuality, was built on the uncritical acceptance of prostitution as an institution expressive of both men's and women's sexuality. Alfred C. Kinsey, Sc.D., and his colleagues worked from the 1940s through the 1970s to articulate a sexuality that was graphically portrayed in magazines. Even today, some assume that prostitution is sex. In fact, prostitution is a last-ditch means of economic survival or "paid rape," as one survivor described it. Its harms are made invisible by the idea that prostitution is sex, rather than sexual violence.
Prostitution has much in common with other kinds of violence against women. What incest is to the family, prostitution is to the community. Prostitution is widely socially tolerated and its consumers (commercial sex customers who are called johns or tricks by women in prostitution) are socially invisible.
Herman (2003) polled attendees at a trauma conference, asking how many currently or previously treated patients who had been used in prostitution. Three-quarters of the 600 attendees raised their hands. Describing prostitution as hidden in plain sight, Herman noted that 30 years ago, rape, domestic violence and incest were similarly invisible.
Prostitution Is Violent
Although clinicians are beginning to recognize the overwhelming physical violence in prostitution, the internal ravages of prostitution have not been well understood. Prostitution and trafficking are experiences of being hunted down, dominated, sexually harassed and assaulted. There is a lack of awareness among clinicians regarding the systematic methods of brainwashing, indoctrination and physical control that are used against women in prostitution. There has been far more clinical attention paid to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among those prostituted than to their depressions, lethal suicidality, mood disorders, anxiety disorders (including posttraumatic stress disorder) dissociative disorders and chemical dependence.
Regardless of prostitution's status (legal, illegal or decriminalized) or its physical location (strip club, massage parlor, street, escort/home/hotel), prostitution is extremely dangerous for women. Homicide is a frequent cause of death (Potterat et al., 2004).
Prolonged and repeated trauma precedes entry into prostitution, with most women beginning prostitution as sexually abused adolescents (Bagley and Young, 1987; Belton, 1992; Dworkin, 1997; Farley and Barkan, 1998; Silbert and Pines, 1983b, 1981; Simons and Whitbeck, 1991) (Table 1). Homelessness is frequently a precipitating event to prostitution. Women in prostitution are frequently raped and physically assaulted (Farley et al., 2003; Hunter, 1994; Miller, 1995; Parriott, 1994; Silbert and Pines, 1983a).
Prostituted women are unrecognized victims of intimate partner violence by pimps and customers (Stark and Hodgson, 2003). Pimps and customers use methods of coercion and control like those of other batterers: minimization and denial of physical violence, economic exploitation, social isolation, verbal abuse, threats and intimidation, physical violence, sexual assault, and captivity (Giobbe, 1993, 1991; Giobbe et al., 1990). The systematic violence emphasizes the victim's worthlessness except in her role as prostitute.
Clearly, violence is the norm for women in prostitution. Incest, sexual harassment, verbal abuse, stalking, rape, battering and torture are points on a continuum of violence, all of which occur regularly in prostitution. A difference between prostitution and other types of gender violence is the payment of money for the abuse. Yet payment of money does not erase all that we know about sexual harassment, rape and domestic violence.
The experiences of a woman who prostituted primarily in strip clubs, but also in massage, escort and street prostitution, are typical (Farley et al., 2003). In strip club prostitution, she was sexually harassed and assaulted. Stripping required her to smilingly accommodate customers' verbal abuse. Customers grabbed and pinched her legs, arms, breasts, buttocks and crotch, sometimes resulting in bruises and scratches. Customers squeezed her breasts until she was in severe pain, and they humiliated her by ejaculating on her face. Customers and pimps physically brutalized her. She was severely bruised from beatings and frequently had black eyes. Pimps pulled her hair as a means of control and torture. She was repeatedly beaten on the head with closed fists, sometimes resulting in unconsciousness. From these beatings, her eardrum was damaged, and her jaw was dislocated and remains so many years later. She was cut with knives. She was burned with cigarettes by customers who smoked while raping her. She was gang-raped and she was also raped individually by at least 20 men at different times in her life. These rapes by johns and pimps sometimes resulted in internal bleeding.
Yet this woman described the psychological damage of prostitution as far worse than the physical violence. She explained that prostitution "is internally damaging. You become in your own mind what these people do and say with you" (Farley et al., 2003).
Almost two decades earlier, Norwegian researchers noted that women in prostitution were treated like commodities into which men masturbate, causing immense psychological harm to the person acting as receptacle (Hoigard and Finstad, 1986). - See more at: http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/sexual-offenses/prostitution-sexual-violence#sthash.4HET4iiQ.dpuf
Page 2 of the same article reads in part (membership wall blocks access to the rest):
"Prostitution Is Sexual Violence: Page 2 of 2
October 01, 2004 | Sexual Offenses, Bipolar Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Psychiatric Emergencies, Sexual Disorders, Trauma And Violence
By Melissa Farley, PhD
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Exposure to paid or unpaid sexual violence may result in symptoms of PTSD. Most prostitution includes the traumatic stressors that are categorized as DSM-IV criterion A1 of the diagnosis of PTSD (American Psychiatric Association, 1994):
Direct personal experience of an event that involves actual or threatened death or serious injury, or other threat to one's personal integrity; or witnessing an event that involves death, injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of another person.
In response to these events, the person with PTSD experiences fear and powerlessness, oscillating between emotional numbing and emotional/physiologic hyperarousal. Posttraumatic stress disorder is known to be especially severe when the stressor is planned and implemented (as in war, rape, incest, battering, torture or prostitution).
In nine countries, across widely varying cultures, we found that two-thirds of 854 women in prostitution had symptoms of PTSD (Farley et al, 2003) at a severity that was comparable to treatment-seeking combat veterans (Weathers et al, 1991), battered women seeking shelter (Houskamp and Foy, 1991; Kemp et al., 1991), rape survivors (Bownes et al., 1991) and refugees from state-organized torture (Ramsey et al., 1993).
The women were interviewed in a range of contexts (Farley et al., 2003). Interviewers from supportive local agencies accompanied the researchers, and agency referrals were given in writing. In some countries women and girls were interviewed at agencies that offered services specifically to women and girls in prostitution (Colombia, Thailand, Zambia). Elsewhere, women were interviewed in an STD clinic (Germany, Turkey), in the street (Canada, United States), or in brothels, strip clubs and massage parlors, as well as in the street (Mexico, South Africa). Women often reported that they prostituted in both indoor and outdoor locations.
The intensity of trauma-related symptoms was related to the intensity of involvement in prostitution. Women who serviced more customers in prostitution reported more severe physical symptoms (Vanwesenbeek, 1994). The longer women were in prostitution, the more STDs they were likely to have experienced (Parriot, 1994).
It is a cruel lie to suggest that decriminalization or legalization will protect anyone in prostitution. It is not possible to protect someone whose source of income exposes them to the likelihood of being raped on average once a week (Hunter, 1994). One woman explained that prostitution is "like domestic violence taken to the extreme" (Leone, 2004). .....
This is where the passage ends...
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