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When I first heard of Def-con, I must admit, I was not terribly interested. A security tech-convention held in the wastes of Las Vegas did not sound like much of a good time. Aside from some fiddling I did with Python in my younger years, I didn’t have much experience with computers on that level. However…
When it comes to the crisis in Greece, it seems as if everyone has an opinion. The Greek burgeoning debt crisis has been used as final scapegoat for the thousand point drop in the stock market. Furthermore, Greece has charges levelled at it, proclaiming it to be a ‘plague of bad debt.’
It is interesting to note that in a country rife with fraud and corruption, America still refuses to face the bull in the china shop. Americans remains the only people not to be outraged enough by the rampant ruling Plutocracy to rise up and voice their discontent against social vampires.
Unless you’ve spent the last few days in a coma; you probably know about the big hullabaloo concerning the Times Square Bomber. If you haven’t heard about it, it is a touching story about how some mickey-mouse incendiary device (that was about as dangerous as your average Redneck’s pick-up truck on the fourth of July) was discovered by some stoic citizens and turned in to the proper authorities. Two and a half days later, we track the guy down, take him into custody, and process him. End movie, roll credits, applause, applause, applause.
If you ask the average person about nations responsible for unethical biological testing on human subjects, chances are America would be at the very bottom of the list. However, it is in the United States of America, that there is a great and proud tradition of biological testing on human guinea pigs.
Mark Z. Danielewski’s, House of Leaves, is on some levels a love story, on another it is an existential horror story, on yet others, it is a puzzle contained within pages. It whirls past preconceived notions of what a book is and turns into something completely new.
Having consolidated control of the colony by 1799, L’Ouverture quickly set about firmly establishing Haitian independence. “There cannot exist slaves [in Saint-Domingue], servitude is therein forever abolished. All men are born, live and die free and French,” he wrote in a draft constitution for the new nation.
Having almost completely eliminated the Amerindian population in Haiti, the Spanish now began importing kidnapped Africans as early as 1501 under the rule of Nicolás de Ovando; thus making him the first enslaver of both the Americas and Haiti.
The land of Haiti was originally inhabited by one of the many indigenous native tribes that called the islands of the Greater Antilles (including Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad, Barbados, and several others) their home. They were the Arawaks or Taínos people.
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