Thursday, December 23, 2010

squad breaches the door of a suspected insurgent safe house

A. The prisoners also told the Iraqi soldiers where they could find the mortar tubes hidden down by the Tigris so they must be treated bad and that was it. soldiers let them go after a quick search, trying to walk the line between getting Mosul securely on its feet, and not creating more enemies out of Iraqis who just want to go about their lives. Mission Complete, Return to Base.The commander had allowed the two wounded men to go off in the ambulance to the al Jibouri hospital. But he radioed to the Iraqi Army and asked the IA to follow them. According to LTC Welsh, Iraqi soldiers “visited” the men in the hospital, playing dumb, and offering transportation home. Once they got there, Iraqi soldiers searched the home, finding six dead men: Death by Roughnecks.




B. The potential long and short term repercussions if any of these detainees are mistreated is that
•Correct misconceptions about torture and maltreatment fostered by television shows such as “24,” “LOST,” “Alias” and others.
•Review Laws of War and their application to U.S. interrogation policy and practices.
•Review instructions from the Army Field Manual 2-22.3 Human Intelligence Collector Operations. It used to be that only villains on television tortured. Today, “good guy” and heroic American characters torture,  and this torture is depicted as necessary, effective and even patriotic.

The declaration of the United States war and the German response to the United States

In 1970 the group issued a "Declaration of a State of War" against the United States government, under the name "Weather Underground Organization" (WUO). The bombing attacks mostly targeted government buildings, along with several banks. Most were preceded by evacuation warnings, along with communiqués identifying the particular matter that the attack was intended to protest. The german response what that More than 9 million combatants were killed, due largely to great technological advances in firepower without corresponding ones in mobility. It was the second deadliest conflict in history.
The assassination on 28 June 1914 of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, was the immediate trigger of the war. Long-term causes, such as imperialistic foreign policies of the great powers of Europe, such as the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire, the British Empire, France, and Italy, played a major role. the German had been militarily and politically defeated. The last two ceased to exist.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Call Of The Duty

The real problem though is the kids. How are they gonna know what to do in a violent situation if they don't have some sort of experience dealing with realistic violence, Serioulsy though, Call to Duty or one of those war based first person shooters and his fellow devil dog has fallen. the person freaks. A part of us, varying in degrees of prominence the brighter or darker it becomes, a review of this game titled,ex: “Modern Warfare 2 Kills Well With Others." The Call of Duty video games are published and owned by Activision and published for Macs by Aspyr Media and have been developed primarily by Infinity Ward and Treyarch, with other games being developed by Gray Matter Interactive, Spark Unlimited, Pi Studios,Amaze Entertainment, Rebellion Developments, and n-Space, using a variety of game engines including the id Tech 3, the Treyarch NGL, and the IW 4.0. As of November 27, 2009, total sales for the entire Call Of Duty series have surpassed 55 million units worldwide, taking $3 billion in retail sales in the process. combat training—trying to “get a taste” of war. One commentator goes so far as to say that “[MW 2] makes you feel every ounce of it” as if “you are there, doing it all.” Not only is it violent and graphic, but “realistic,” capable of “building community,” while showing that “violence has a real cost.”Modern Warfare 2 may be realistic, but it is absolutely not real. Indeed, as a genre video games are inherently detached from any obligation to represent reality.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

WikiLeaks Has Dropped Bombshells


convictions are unfaltering. remain true to the ideals have expressed. This circumstance shall not shake them. If anything this process has increased my determination that they are true and correct. They now know that Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and others are instruments of U.S. foreign policy. It’s not something we knew before. calling for the world to protect his work and his people from these illegal and immoral attacks. Christine Assange also said, “I told him how people from all over the world, in all sorts of countries, were standing up with placards and screaming out for his freedom and justice, and he was very heartened by that.”As colleagues Ravi Somaiya and Alan Cowell report, Mr. Assange has arrived in court in London for a bail hearing as he fights extradition to Sweden, where he wanted for questioning about allegations of sexual impropriety made by two women. In an a previous interview with the Australian broadcaster, obtained by The Associated Press, Christine Assange told 7 News that her son was not guilty of rape. writing an op-ed article for a newspaper or elsewhere. Such an article can reach millions of readers, swaying hearts and changing minds. It can help reshape a public debate and affect policy. It also can bring you considerable recognition for less effort than it takes to write a professional monograph or journal article. Moreover, effective op-ed articles reflect well on both the author and the university, which is why Duke encourages faculty members and others to reach out to this important market.




World War I And The New Technologies On The Weapons Front

Once committed to an attack, fly in at full speed. After scoring crippling or disabling hits, the pilot would clear himself and then repeat the process. They never pursued the enemy once they had eluded one person. Better to break off and set up again for a new assault. It always began the attacks from full strength, if possible, ideal flying height being 22,000 ft because at that altitude, could best utilize the performance of the aircraft. Men were going to die in the air as they had for centuries on the ground and on the seas, by killing each other. The conquest of the air was truly accomplished. belonging to a group of men who fly alone. There is only one seat in the cockpit of a fighter airplane. There is no space alotted for another pilot to tune the radios in the weather or make the calls to air traffic control centers or to help with the emergency procedures or to call off the airspeed down final approach.

Gallipoli Battle In 1981

By the spring of 1915, combat on the Western Front had sunk into stalemate. Enemy troops stared at each other from a line of opposing trenches that stretched from the English Channel to the Swiss border. Neither opponent could outflank its enemy resulting in costly and unproductive direct attacks on well-fortified defenses. The war of movement that both sides had predicted at the beginning of the conflict had devolved into deadly stagnation. The Germans introduced poison gas; it soon became used by both sides, though it never proved decisive in winning a battle. Its effects were brutal, causing slow and painful death, and poison gas became one of the most-feared and best-remembered horrors of the war. A successful attack in this area could open a sea lane to the Russians through the Black Sea, provide a base for attacking the Central Powers through what Churchill described as the "soft underbelly of Europe", and divert enemy attention from the Western Front.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Avatar Imperialism

    Avatar is linked to Imperialism because it has the strong team of people trying to dominate a planet called Pandora. There is racism on the movie also because they are against these living aliens from that planet they think if they are not human they should die, that's horrible. Also it has a lot of leadership involved. The most important point is that it is not a coincidence, for example, that no real critique of presently obtaining American militarism is possible in a movie with no real American military presence. Critics have claimed that the story of a white US Marine who saves an alien race perpetuates the "white Messiah fable" and suggests that non-whites are primitives incapable of helping themselves. Avatar is a racial fantasy. It rests on the stereotype that white people are rationalist and technocratic while colonial victims are spiritual and athletic. ikening the film to Pocahontas, where the Indian woman leads the white man into the wilderness, and he learns the way of the people and becomes the savior, It's really upsetting in many ways. It would be nice if we could save ourselves.

Anti-SOA

The United States should not be able to operate such an organization and train people in the practice of the coup d'etat because the SOA, frequently dubbed the “School of Assassins,” has left a trail of blood and suffering in every country where its graduates have returned. Well over its 59 years, the SOA has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence and interrogation tactics. At the same time they have a lot of victims and it also needs replacement. SOA has a lot of violence that's another reason why the United States should not be able to operate such an organization. An example of violence is when On February 21-22, 2005, eight members of the San Jose de Apartado Peace Community in Uraba, Colombia were brutally massacred. Witnesses identified the killers as members of the Colombian military's 17th Brigade, commanded by an SOA graduate. Also few rich and powerful in the US and their cohorts in Latin America. Horrible human rights record, damage critical bio-diversity in the Amazon basin, and more. Those are all the reasons why the United States should not be able to operate such an organization.

Relative To Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

 Bourgeois has to do kind of like the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when it stars saying that all of the European powers have allied themselves against Communism, frequently demonizing its ideas. It's kind of when the people were starting to hear about the chocolate factory. Therefore, the Communists have assembled in London and written this Manifesto in order to make public their views, aims and tendencies, and to dispel the maliciously implanted misconceptions. It all begins by addressing the issue of class antagonism. In the movie they were also gethering people for the announcement. It shows the revolutions just like in the chocolate factory into exchange. They had towns just like in the chocolate factory. It became powerful. The Proletariate also has to do with the chocolate factory because it is linked to the Bourgeois , the Proletariate also developed, The proletarians live only as long as they can find work, and they can find work only as long as their labor increases capital. They have market just like in the movie. Technology has rendered their specialized skills no longer useful. The Manifesto then describes the past history of the proletariat. As soon as this class was created it began to struggle with the bourgeoisie. This struggle originally involved the individual laborer, and all these things are somehow linked just like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Queen Liliuokalani Point Of View Of "The Overthrow of the Monarchy"

January 14

I see my brother King Kalakaua, seeking to control the kingdom politically as well as economically, formed a secret organization, the Hawaiian League. Native Hawaiians in the kingdom, was predominantly American, including several missionary descendants. Organizer and fire brand of the league was Lorrin A. Thurston, a lawyer and missionary grandson, who would later be a leader in the overthrow of the monarchy, with many of the same men.




January 15


I see the Native Hawaiians looked up to their sovereigns with respect and aloha. Kalakaua and Lili`uokalani were also well-educated, intelligent, skilled, and equally at home with Hawaiian traditions and court ceremony.




January 16




The Bayonet Constitution greatly curtailed the king's power, making him more powerful. It placed the actual executive power in the hands of the Cabinet, whose members could no longer be dismissed by the king, only by the Legislature of that place.



January 17



Draped in the black of mourning, was a powerful symbol. The Hawaiian people are still seeking justice through legal means reparations, a fulfillment of trust commitments. seeking recognition of Hawaiiansovereignty. The Native Hawaiians will decide how they choose to structure sovereignty, as a nation within a nation, complete independence, or some other model. It is no longer a distant dream, but an attainable goal.

Dangers Faced On The Construction Of The Panama Canal

Day 1

Hey, Im am one of the West Indians that are doing the construction of the Panama Canal. Life here, is doing ok we just got here and where about the start working on the Panama Canal. It looks like hard work but let's see what will happen eventually.

Day 2 
 Well things now are starting to look bad. I see a lot of sad and crying faces, i see worry and frustration and a lot of other people getteing hurt or having a lot of diseases. céanique was a plague was the first problem appearing.

Day 3

While i was working on the Canal there was a total of Five hundred lives lost for every mile (about fifty miles) of the length of the Canal, or a total of 25,000 deaths. The tropical diseases inherent in cutting through dense, virgin jungle, and working in the uniquely hot and humid climate of Panama.

Day 4

I see people getting Malaria, Yellow Fever, dysentery, typhoid, dengue, and they were having difficulties of adapting to the tropical heat. It was hard for us black people, West Indian, if they survived, would remember the many wondrous and worthwhile things about their Canal experience.

Day 5

Death by violence was probably even more feared than disease. Being crushed under land and mud slides, and suffocation from noxious gases was happening at this Canal. Some people were caught under the wheel and died. I see Indians, men, with thousands of fifty pound boxes of dynamite on their heads or shoulders, along with the men who drilled the charge holes into the side of rocky precipices were often the victims of accidental explosions, Yes life here at the Panama Canal was hard.