This Day in History: Executive Order 9066 & Japanese Internment Camps
On February 19, 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 allowing the US military to create domestic exclusion zones and remove people from them.
“Within days,” the Los Angeles Times reminds us, “the military began removing all Japanese Americans and Japanese from the West Coast.
“Within months, about 110,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans – almost two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens –were moved to internment camps scattered through eastern California, Arizona and other Western States.”
The LA Times Framework blog has a great slideshow of the images they published at that time.
Images: Lead image is a sign notifying people of Japanese descent to report for relocation, via Wikipedia. Photos via the LA Times Framework blog.
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If you haven’t already, this is a must-read:
On the death of Tyler Clementi, a gay Rutgers student, and the charges against his roommate, Dharun Ravi, who used a webcam to spy on him. Clementi took his own life shortly after the incident:
An online video chat, using an application like iChat or Skype, starts like a phone call: one person requests a conversation, and the recipient must accept the request. But Ravi had tweaked his iChat settings so that the program could automatically accept incoming calls. According to Ravi, he had made this his computer’s usual setting. Whatever the case, that evening the program was set to auto-accept; he also turned off his monitor, or darkened it to black. At 9:13 P.M., he was beside Wei at her computer. He opened iChat, and clicked his name on her chat list. A few feet away, his computer accepted his request, and Ravi and Wei saw a live video image of Room 30.
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The New York Times (as measured by comScore, currently the most fashionable collector of digital evidence extant) had 44.8m unique visitors in December, while our own dear Daily Mail had 45.3m. Manhattan’s “grey lady” doesn’t rule the global web world any longer.
New York Times Overtaken By Mail Online
Current top story/headline at the Mail:
Greg Kelly and his accuser’s ‘marathon 48 hours of explicit texts that led to illicit meeting in bar covered in BRAS before alleged rape’
I hate to sound like such a pretentious asshole all the time, but c’mon. Sensational, exploitative stupidity rules the roost.
(link via shaneguiter)
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We’ve known about labor abuses in some factories for four years, and they’re still going on. Why? Because the system works for us.
A “former Apple executive” speaking to the New York Times about working conditions at suppliers’ plants in China.
(via officialssay)
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‘Super PAC’ for Gingrich to Get $5 Million Infusion
The supporter, Dr. Miriam Adelson, is the wife of Sheldon Adelson, a longtime Gingrich friend and a patron who this month contributed $5 million to the super PAC, Winning Our Future. Dr. Adelson’s check will bring the couple’s total contributions to Winning Our Future to $10 million, a figure that could substantially neutralize the millions of dollars already being spent in Florida by Mr. Romney and Restore Our Future, a super PAC supporting him.
Mr. Adelson’s initial check financed a barrage of negative ads against Mr. Romney in South Carolina, helping Mr. Gingrich to an upset victory in Saturday’s Republican primary there. But those attacks, which focused on Mr. Romney’s wealth and private equity career, also drew condemnation from many conservatives, who said Mr. Gingrich’s allies were undercutting free-market capitalism and amplifying class-warfare arguments being made by Democrats and Occupy Wall Street demonstrators.
Providing one rich white man with millions of dollars to assist in said rich white man getting a new job: because there is no better way to make use of that money.
If you can stomach it, here are several more. I bookmarked this sometime yesterday. I wasn’t going to post it here as I don’t particularly care for Buzzfeed, but these comments are vile and the deep-seeded racism and ignorance in this country needs to be pointed out, always.
