most current methods of execution are rough on the recipient, which is not a surprise since the purpose is to kill the person sentenced to death by the legal system; the newer methods of execution by injection are hardly better than electrocution or hanging or the firing squad (drawing and quartering has been out of favor for a while)
here's a better method for execution of criminals: inject them with heroin, which is a natural substance for which the human body has receptors, which is why getting hooked is so difficult to undo
the use of heroin for executions has two benefits over the other methods: first, the experience for the executee will be rather pleasant, actually, and the overdose no less lethal, which removes the complaints about cruelty
secondly, kids and others considering or being pressured to try a little 'pop' of heroin – no big deal, you can quit any time, no real harm done – will be clear that heroin is used to execute criminals because heroin is very, very lethal
Friday, April 28, 2006
Saturday, April 22, 2006
June 2nd Bomb Testing
Hidden from public knowledge until a few days ago, the Pentagon is preparing to test a gigantic open-air explosion at the Nevada Test Site, location of most of America's prior nuclear testing. The explosion in Area 16 of Yucca Flat is expected to create a mushroom cloud visible from Las Vegas. The 'bomb' is being constructed of chemical fertilizer and diesel fuel, the same ingredients as the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City, placed into a 30-foot deep hole.
The code name for the test is 'Divine Strake'; the name alone is enough to make anyone worried. ('Strake' is the term for a plank on the hull of a ship or boat, as in the lapstrake hulls of Viking sailing ships; modern usage is for certain devices on an aircraft fuselage to increase air-speed.)
The Nevada Test Site is located roughly 65 miles (north & west) from Las Vegas and roughly 35 miles (south & east) from the controversial Yucca Mountain storage facility – the tunnels intended to house spent fuel rods from nuclear energy plants along with all manner of other radioactive waste for all of eternity.
DETAILS
The explosion is rated at 700 tons, which is 700 times larger than the biggest conventional (non-nuclear) bomb in the U.S. arsenal.
The maximum payload of the workhorse B-52 bomber is only 35 tons, the C-5A cargo plane carries only 145 tons, so there is no way to deliver such a gigantic conventional bomb.
The explosion is expected to stir up kilotons of dust & dirt, likely containing radioactive fallout from all those Cold War nuclear experiments – which is of course denied by the Pentagon.
CONCLUSIONS
This test is using conventional weapons to see how much damage will occur from a small 'tactical' nuclear weapon, as is planned for Dubya's upcoming unprovoked assault on Iran.
You can expect that the attack on Iran will be timed to skew the Congressional elections in November, and the term 'October Surprise' (invented by 'Tricky Dicky' Nixon) is most apt.
SIDE NOTE
When George Dubya Bush was a child, he took pleasure in stuffing firecrackers up the anus of live frogs and then lighting the firecracker. 'Divine Strake' is more of the same pathology.
UPDATE May 10
Members of the Shoshone Tribe and others living east of the Nevada Test Site – 'downwinders' – filed suit in Las Vegas federal court to halt the 'Divine Strake' bomb test; the test has been postponed until June 23rd. The protest group is the Western Shoshone Defense Project.
UPDATE May 27
The National Nuclear Security Administration has buckled, since they cannot provide evidence to back up the Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed mock atomic test. 'Divine Strake' is indefinitely postponed until a revised Environmental Impact Report can be produced.
UPDATE August 3
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency announced that the 'Divine Strake' non-atomic bomb test is postponed until at least 2007, possibly in a different location.
{For a historical perspective on America's atomic past,
visit the Atomic U.S.A. Page at Spirit of America Bookstore}
The code name for the test is 'Divine Strake'; the name alone is enough to make anyone worried. ('Strake' is the term for a plank on the hull of a ship or boat, as in the lapstrake hulls of Viking sailing ships; modern usage is for certain devices on an aircraft fuselage to increase air-speed.)
The Nevada Test Site is located roughly 65 miles (north & west) from Las Vegas and roughly 35 miles (south & east) from the controversial Yucca Mountain storage facility – the tunnels intended to house spent fuel rods from nuclear energy plants along with all manner of other radioactive waste for all of eternity.
DETAILS
CONCLUSIONS
SIDE NOTE
When George Dubya Bush was a child, he took pleasure in stuffing firecrackers up the anus of live frogs and then lighting the firecracker. 'Divine Strake' is more of the same pathology.
UPDATE May 10
Members of the Shoshone Tribe and others living east of the Nevada Test Site – 'downwinders' – filed suit in Las Vegas federal court to halt the 'Divine Strake' bomb test; the test has been postponed until June 23rd. The protest group is the Western Shoshone Defense Project.
UPDATE May 27
The National Nuclear Security Administration has buckled, since they cannot provide evidence to back up the Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed mock atomic test. 'Divine Strake' is indefinitely postponed until a revised Environmental Impact Report can be produced.
UPDATE August 3
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency announced that the 'Divine Strake' non-atomic bomb test is postponed until at least 2007, possibly in a different location.
{For a historical perspective on America's atomic past,
visit the Atomic U.S.A. Page at Spirit of America Bookstore}
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
TreasonGate Timeline updated
The first version of the Working Minds TreasonGate Cover-Up Timeline was included in Issue #53 [July 2005] of the Working Minds 'WMail' ezine, and also posted online as Essay #53.
As subsequent events reveal more pieces of the cover-up, this new page will be the location of ongoing updates regarding George Dubya's path to impeachment!
The page http://www.working-minds.com/TreasonGate.htm was updated this week.
As subsequent events reveal more pieces of the cover-up, this new page will be the location of ongoing updates regarding George Dubya's path to impeachment!
The page http://www.working-minds.com/TreasonGate.htm was updated this week.
Sunday, April 16, 2006
WMail #58: "The 51% Solution"
the latest issue of the free WMail 'Working Minds' philosophy & activism email newsletter is sent out, and also posted online
the essay topic is "The 51% Solution", posted online at http://www.working-minds.com/WMessay58.htm; the full issue includes news & comments and a couple dozen quotations, and that is posted at http://www.working-minds.com/WM2006a.htm#58
the topic of the last issue was "Civil Disobedience", and the May issue will be on the topic "The Distinction Source"
each issue is posted online –
see http://www.working-minds.com/WMailindex.htm;
and the essays are also posted separately –
see http://www.working-minds.com/WMessays.htm;
the quotations are posted by author
at http://www.working-minds.com/WMquotes.htm
sign up for the free ezine via email here
the essay topic is "The 51% Solution", posted online at http://www.working-minds.com/WMessay58.htm; the full issue includes news & comments and a couple dozen quotations, and that is posted at http://www.working-minds.com/WM2006a.htm#58
the topic of the last issue was "Civil Disobedience", and the May issue will be on the topic "The Distinction Source"
each issue is posted online –
see http://www.working-minds.com/WMailindex.htm;
and the essays are also posted separately –
see http://www.working-minds.com/WMessays.htm;
the quotations are posted by author
at http://www.working-minds.com/WMquotes.htm
sign up for the free ezine via email here
feature film "Black Billy"
started the Landmark Education seminar on Creativity (for the 4th or 5th time) on Tuesday, and on Wednesday I wrote the outline for a movie; (any day that I write is an excellent day, the days in between are just days in between)
New Mexico has a unique attitude about their outlaws and lawmen – Billy the Kid, the Lincoln County Wars, Elfego Baca, Blackjack Ketchum, the Bowdres – that shows up in the local media etc, an attitude of mostly pride, some nostalgia, and overall 'this is what New Mexicans are like'
I'll call this screenplay "Black Billy" because it is a noir Western tale, with the noir structure and the noir stance of inevitable doom: there is nothing Billy can do to prevent his too-certain fate, and he knows it — think Peckinpah
New Mexico has a unique attitude about their outlaws and lawmen – Billy the Kid, the Lincoln County Wars, Elfego Baca, Blackjack Ketchum, the Bowdres – that shows up in the local media etc, an attitude of mostly pride, some nostalgia, and overall 'this is what New Mexicans are like'
I'll call this screenplay "Black Billy" because it is a noir Western tale, with the noir structure and the noir stance of inevitable doom: there is nothing Billy can do to prevent his too-certain fate, and he knows it — think Peckinpah
Thursday, April 06, 2006
WMail #57: "Civil Disobedience"
the latest issue of the free WMail 'Working Minds' philosophy & activism email newsletter is sent out, and also posted online
the essay topic is "Civil Disobedience", posted online at http://www.working-minds.com/WMessay57.htm; the full issue includes news & comments and a couple dozen quotations, and that is posted at http://www.working-minds.com/WM2006a.htm#57
the topic of the last issue was "State of Emergency", and the April issue will be on the topic "The 51% Solution"
each issue is posted online –
see http://www.working-minds.com/WMailindex.htm;
and the essays are also posted separately –
see http://www.working-minds.com/WMessays.htm;
the quotations are posted by author
at http://www.working-minds.com/WMquotes.htm
sign up for the free ezine via email here
the essay topic is "Civil Disobedience", posted online at http://www.working-minds.com/WMessay57.htm; the full issue includes news & comments and a couple dozen quotations, and that is posted at http://www.working-minds.com/WM2006a.htm#57
the topic of the last issue was "State of Emergency", and the April issue will be on the topic "The 51% Solution"
each issue is posted online –
see http://www.working-minds.com/WMailindex.htm;
and the essays are also posted separately –
see http://www.working-minds.com/WMessays.htm;
the quotations are posted by author
at http://www.working-minds.com/WMquotes.htm
sign up for the free ezine via email here
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