Everything I’ve read says that waterboarding is an extreme form of torture. Even volunteers who have submitted themselves to waterboarding for demonstration purposes say that it’s an inhumane way to treat someone. Gaerea
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What’s the most grotesque music video you’ve ever seen? Something by Marilyn Manson, maybe? Or was it something by Slipknot? Whatever your choice, it probably isn’t as weird as the never-officially-released video produced
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Using music as a weapon has been going on for centuries. In recent decades, everything from Metallica to the theme from Barney the Dinosaur has been used to torture people. (II have a
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Music is one of the greatest gifts the universe has bestowed upon humanity. It provides so much joy, comfort, inspiration, enjoyment, and motivation. It’s used in ritual and worship. And it allows us
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Three men who were held in the Oklahoma County Detention Centre claim that they were “tortured” back in 2019 by being forced to stand while the song “Baby Shark” played at high volume
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Bill Gross is a tech billionaire annoyed with his tech entrepreneur neighbour, Mark Towfiq. At issue is a glass sculpture on Towfiq’s property that Gross says is ugly and is ruining his view.
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If you end up in jail Oklahoma, don’t expect to be a cushy experience. Take the case of inmates at the Oklahoma County Jail who were forced to listen to this at high
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A new book called The Penguin Book of Hell has a chapter about the music American interrogators use at detention centres around the planet, including a prison in Mosul, Iraq, Guantanamo Bay in
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The story of Jamal Khashoggi’s death keeps getting more and more horrible. On October 1, he walked into the Saudi embassy in Istanbul to pick up some papers involving his upcoming wedding. It
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TheConversation takes a look at the times throughout history when music was used for evil purposes. There is of course variation in the types of music different people would consider punishment. When merchant
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Music can inspire and invigorate. It can also be used to inflict harm and even kill. The New Yorker takes a look at the history of music when it comes to violence. December,
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