links for 2009-11-07

• LIFEHACK: Add Your Facebook Events to Google Calendar
  If you already use google calendar to keep track of you and your friends events — and don't care to look into facebook redundantly — here is a very simple process by which you can add a calendar to your google calendar which shows your facebook events. HANDY FOR THE LAZY!
  (tags: calendars hacks GoogleCalendar Lifehacks Facebook socialNetworking events google)
• TORTURE: Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to Uzbekistan be ‘raped with broken bottles’, 'boiled alive', tortured children in front of them
  Shocking revelations from the UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, who was removed from his post when he tried to talk about the torture that nobody wanted to admit was happening…

  … of course now that the news is out, everyone realizes that yes, the torture happened. Canada admits we caused Canadien citizens to be tortured in Syria for 10 mos, for example. But we don't admit it, of course.

  Signs point to everything in this being true, given the current track record of the War On Terror.

  (tags: politics WarOnTerror terrorism war torture AbuseOfAuthority ExtraordinaryRendition Rendition Uzbekistan CIA confessions UK ambassadors CraigMurray rape raped brokenBottles boildAlive children HumanRightsWatch RawStory news articles AlQueda GeorgeBush GerogeW.Bush oil Trans-AfghanistanPipeline YouTube videos AsianDevelopmentBank energy)
• WAR ON DRUGS: Police Focus on Marijuana a Danger to Public Safety
  As marijuana arrests go up, rape, robbery, assault, and murder arrests go down.

  Correlation, or causation? Given that there is only a finite amount of police resources, I'd say this is causation.

  Remember, America: Every pot smoker you put in jail takes enforcement away from real, violent crimes.

  (tags: politics WarOnDrugs drugs marijuana freedom arrests California publicSafety rape murder robbery robberies murders violentCrimes crime assault statistics charts MPP blog articles)
• PRIVACY: Google Dashboard
  Google has now introduced a dashboard for users to see what data of theirs google has
  (tags: Google dashboard privacy)
• UNITED STATS SPONSORS TORTURE: A court decision that reflects what type of country the U.S. is
  The United States violated an innocent man's constitutional rights, secretly shipping him to Syria where he was systematically tortured for 10 months.

  We then dismissed his lawsuit, arguing that EVEN IF THE GOVERNMENT VIOLATED HIS RIGHTS, he still has no right to sue for what was done for him, because that might affect national security.

  What about the national security of knowing you live in a country where you have actual rights? Not words on paper, but actual rights that mean something?

  This must be more of that government transparency Obama promised. Not that he had anything to do with this case, but the Obama administration has repeatedly gone out of its way to ensure that the "laws" that caused this to happen remain on the books.

  (tags: politics freedom WarOnTerror terrorism war MaherArar Canadian Syrian AbuseOfAuthority torture extraordinaryRendition JFKAirport detained HumanRights rights rendered interrogation innocent publicDisclosure government StatesSecrets SecondCircuitCourt legal rulings lawsuits dismissed ConstitutionalRights NationalSecurity bullshit secrecy rats urine beatings screams falseConfessions forcedConfessions confessions Salon news articles)
• COMEDY: VIDEO GAMES
  Crochet crochet revolution? Crotchet hero? Knitting mania? Funny picture.
  (tags: comedy games videoGames knitting crochet grannies grandmother Haluze)