We read about atrocities by the Germans during World War II, about the Balkans in the 1990s, about Saddam Hussein, but we forget that those same atrocities are happening today, right now, in North Korea. Hundreds of thousands of people are imprisoned in hard labor camps; their only crime was disagreement with the regime. Imagine [...]
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North Korea Atrocities Today
Posted in Atrocities, tagged Atrocities Today, North Korea on May 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Suicides at Apple’s Foxconn Factory
Posted in Atrocities, Business, China on April 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Foxconn Factory in Shenzhen, China produces the iPhone. Worker conditions are so bad, pay so low, that there was recently an epidemic of suicides. The company installed suicide nets at the dorms.
Officers, Why Do You Have Your Guns Out?
Posted in Atrocities on April 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A 68-year-old black veteran with a heart condition gets killed by White Plains, NY police officers when they respond to a distress call by a medical alert system. The police appears to argue that officers felt attacked and responded in self-defense. They came to his house after a medical alert call. He didn’t want them [...]
Movie Review: Sarah’s Key
Posted in Atrocities, Movies, tagged holocaust on March 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Watching Sarah’s Key slapped me around, punched me in the gut, shocked me to the core, and when it was over, and I came to, I realized I’d just watched one of the most difficult movies I can remember. And yet, I was uplifted by the human spirit. The Vel d’Hiv round-up was a little known, [...]
Thieves Go Through my Car
Posted in Atrocities, Feelings on February 13, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Last Saturday I got into my car in our driveway and noticed that the glove compartment was open. What? It turns out, somebody went through my car, and stole: One eight dollar LED flashlight out of the glove compartment, slim style so it fits without taking a lot of space. CD #1 (out of two) of [...]
Book Review: Adolph Hitler Biography – by Jimmy Coca
Posted in Atrocities, Books on October 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
After recently reading several fictional books set in Hitler’s Germany (Garden of Beasts and Every Man Dies Alone), as well as working my way through Der Gelbe Stern, I was interested in how Hitler had come to power in the first place. There are many biographies, of course, and I picked this one because of its [...]
Book Review: Der Gelbe Stern / The Yellow Star – by Gerhard Schoenberner
Posted in Atrocities, Books on September 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is a German photography and testimony collection that chronicles the persecution of the Jews in Europe between 1933 and 1945. The material shown here is utterly shocking, unsettling so, and the testimony and reports cited are so outrageous and disgusting, shocking is not a sufficiently severe term. Crushing might be more appropriate. This material [...]
Visualize 12 Million People
Posted in Atrocities, Commentaries on September 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Why is it important to visualize 12 million people? Adolf Hitler, by ordering the mass extermination of Jews and other minorities, caused an estimated 12 million people to be murdered in the Holocaust, 6 million of them Jews. Counting the casualties from World War II would raise this number considerably, to more than 50 million, and [...]
Rick Perry, the super-Bush
Posted in Atrocities, Commentaries, Political on October 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I have seen pristine wilderness. There is little enough left in our country, and probably less in many other place in the rest of the world. Theodore Roosevelt had a vision, and many followed, building a network of protection for our natural resources and splendor. We are finally on the road to cleaning up our [...]
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