Never forget the time they flew over the Black Panther’s headquarters/home in Philadelphia and dropped 2 fire bombs on them, resulting in the death of all of the house’s 11 occupants but two, including 5 children, and 6 women and men (including the group’s leader, John Africa). The fire was meant to flush them out, and firefighters were told to standby to watch it all burn and to not help the people burning inside. 65 surrounding houses were negligently engulfed & destroyed by the flames.
Oh yeah, and police admit to firing more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition at the burning house in a span of less than 20 minutes, even if they were to come out of the burning house alive.
Though an investigation practically condemned the sheer violence and brute force used by the police in an American city, no one involved received any charges for the fire-bombing, destruction, and death of 11 people, almost half of which were children.
Near Amman, Jordan, the construction of a highway in 1974 revealed another important Neolithic settlement in ancient Palestine at the site of Ain Ghazal, occupied from ca. 7200 to ca. 5000 BCE. The inhabitants built houses of irregularly shaped stones, but carefully plastered and then painted their floors and walls red. The most striking finds at Ain Ghazal, however, are two caches containing three dozen plaster statuettes and busts, some with two heads, datable to ca. 6500 BCE. The sculptures appear to have been ritually buried. The figures were fashioned of white plaster, which was built up over a core of reeds and twine. The sculptors used black bitumen, a tarlike substance, to delineate the pupils of the eyes. On some of the later figures painters added clothing. Only rarely did the artists indicate the gender of the figures.Whatever their purpose, by their size (as much as three feet tall) and sophisticated technique, the Ain Ghazal statuettes and busts are distinguished from Paleolithic figurines such as the tiny Venus of Willendorf and even the foot-tall Hohlenstein-Stadel ivory statuette. They mark the beginning of monumental sculpture in the ancient Near East. (source)
Michael K. Williams, the actor best known for playing Omar Little, on “The Wire,” has a new role: A.C.L.U. ambassador for ending mass incarceration. Sarah Larson reports, in this week’s issue.
1. moral or cultural decline as characterised by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury.
2. a process, condition, or period of deterioration or decline, as in morals or art; decay; turpitude.
3. often Decadence: A literary movement especially of late 19th-century France and England characterised by refined aestheticism, artifice, and the quest for new sensations.
Etymology: from Middle French < Mediaeval Latin dēcadentia, equivalent to Late Latin dēcadent- (stem of dēcadēns), present participle of dēcadere, “to fall away”.
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