Archive for extra-judiciary deaths
left to their own devices
Posted in Books, pictures, Travel with tags cover, cult of strength, Dr. Strangelove, extra-judiciary deaths, imperialism, Iran war, nuclear weapons, Stanley Kubrick, The New Yorker, Trump 2.0, Trump administration, US politics on July 16, 2026 by xi'an
how to qualify a State where…
Posted in Kids, pictures, Statistics, Travel with tags Arc de Triomphe, Bible, death penalty, declaration of independence, Department of War, extra-judiciary deaths, FBI, George III, Instagram, Mother Jones, personality cult, Pulp Fiction, theology, Thomas Jefferson, Trump 2.0, Trump administration, unhinged, USA on May 8, 2026 by xi'an
death penalty by firing squads is being reinstated- foreign, extra-judiciary, State killings are praised by the highest levels of the administration
- counter-powers and political opponents are threatened with legal action
- local and national bodies are actively and aggressively pursuing voter suppression tactics
- scientific bodies are silenced to cater to anti-vaxers and anti-abortion organisations
- avoidable mortality rose from 2009 to 2021, while it declined in most other high-income countries
- the judiciary and the legislature are silenced
- a former F.B.I. director is indicted for a Instagram image of seashells
- the President pushes for a personality cult (e.g., posting his picture on passports, creating an gallery of presidential portraits demeaning his predecessors and extolling himself, and broadcasting images of himself as an healing Christ),
- threatens to destroy a millenial civilization,
- and intends to build an triumphal arch that competes with Napoléon’s Arc de Triomphe
- the Vice President gives theology lessons to the Pope
- the Defence Department is renamed the Department of War
- and its secretary is invoking divine sanction for illegal, criminal, military actions, if confusing quotes from the bible with quotes from Pulp Fiction
Strikingly, Mother Jones draws a strong parallel between the grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence and the above…
“We’ve been told that the killing in Iran is stopping”
Posted in Kids, Travel with tags Amnesty International, clerics, dictature, extra-judiciary deaths, Iran, mass killing, military intervention, pro-democracy protesters, theocracy, Trump administration, US politics, Woman Life Liberty on January 16, 2026 by xi'an
down with theocracies!
Posted in Kids, Travel with tags chador, compulsory veiling laws, extra-judiciary deaths, Human Rights, Iran, Kurdistan, morality police, theocracy, torture, Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, World Coalition against the death penalty on September 24, 2022 by xi'an
