Metal objects were placed in each of his hands, which he could drop if feeling “unbearable stress”, and he was given a code word that, if said, would immediately end the exercise. Smart contracts allow the building of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) where people can quickly complete exchanges with each other without additional confirmation from a third party. I think that the can from which he poured out – the water held about three pints. One out of every seven Americans has at least 10 credit cards. Taking up the work of Chicana feminists who have engaged in practices of revisionist mythmaking, I offer a reading of La Llorona as one possible alternative from which to sketch out an ethics of estos tiempos, of our time. Commentators have noted that the memos omitted key relevant precedents, including a Texas precedent under then-Governor George W. Bush when the state convicted and sentenced to prison for ten years a county sheriff for waterboarding a criminal suspect. Andrew C. McCarthy, a former Republican prosecutor including in the George W. Bush administration, has stated that when used in “some number of instances that were not prolonged or extensive”, waterboarding should not qualify as torture under the law.
Allen Keller, the director of the Bellevue Hospital/New York University Program for Survivors of Torture, has treated “a number of people” who had been subjected to forms of near-asphyxiation, including waterboarding. A form of torture similar to waterboarding is called toca, and more recently “Spanish water torture”, to differentiate it from the better known Chinese water torture, along with garrucha (or strappado) and the most frequently used potro (or the rack). In May 2008, author and journalist Christopher Hitchens voluntarily underwent waterboarding and concluded that it was torture. Professor Darius Rejali of Reed College, author of Torture and Democracy (2007), speculates that the term waterboarding probably has its origin in the need for a euphemism. The OLC memo concluded that waterboarding did not constitute torture and could be used to interrogate enemy combatants. These findings were dismissed in a memo from Associate Deputy Attorney General David Margolis, who found that Yoo showed “poor judgment” but did not violate ethical standards. For over three years during the George W. Bush administration, the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility conducted an investigation into the propriety of the Bybee memo and other memos by the Justice Department on waterboarding and other “enhanced” interrogation techniques.
Many former senior George W. Bush administration officials, on the other hand, have seriously questioned or directly challenged the legality of waterboarding. Christopher Hitchens voluntarily subjected himself to a filmed demonstration of waterboarding in 2008, an experience which he recounted in Vanity Fair. After 16 seconds, Hitchens threw the metal objects to the floor and the torturers pulled the mask from his face, allowing him to breathe. The interrogator placed a towel over Hitchens’ face and poured water on it. And as they did still not obtain anything from me, to the implication of my neighbor, Master Hans took water (during the entire time a cloth had lain on my face), and holding my nose shut with one hand, began to pour water on my abdomen and thence all over my breast, and into my mouth; even as one should drink when he is very thirsty. And when they could still not obtain anything from me, they caused the cord which was on my thigh to be loosed and applied to a fresh place, and wound it much tighter than before, so that I thought he would kill me, and began to shake and tremble greatly. And anal cum yet, after 10 years and 18 films, Marvel still is clueless when it comes to their female heroines.
The US military is still detaining 39 Muslim men at Guantánamo, 27 of them without criminal charges, and judicial proceedings are so flawed that none of the five 9/11 suspects have been brought to trial. “There will be judges who are going to issue a writ of habeas corpus, and you either got to take them to trial or you got to release them at that time,” DeSantis said. Virtual twin experiences take a significant leap forward in the discovery, design, development and manufacturing of innovative patient therapies. I would stress that this narrowly focussed study is not about sex workers’ own experiences of discrimination, stigmatization, and dehumanization. This experiment suggests that the stigma and dehumanization that create very present, real difficulties for sex workers gain much of their potency from the tendency to judge women for their sexual activity. Sexual fantasies serve a simpler function: We imagine an exciting sexual activity and while being aware of its imaginary nature, we are able to return easily to our real lives.
