According to Wikipidia, Jamhuri Day is a national holiday in Kenya, celebrated on 12 December each year.
Jamhuri is the Swahili word for “republic” and the holiday is officially to mark the date of Kenya’s establishment as a republic on 12 December, 1964.
However, the country also gained full independence from the United Kingdom one year earlier on 12 December, 1963, so Jamhuri Day is a double event
It is generally regarded as Kenya’s most important holiday, marked by numerous cultural festivities which celebrate the country’s cultural heritage.
Jamhuri Day is often associated with Dedan Kimathi, the executed leader of the famous Mau Mau, regarded by many Kenyans as the hero who lifted the nation on his shoulders toward independence.
One week before Jamhuri day,Kenyan MP’s rejected a bill forcing them to pay tax on their allowances that were adding up to Ksh 500,000,000.
Journalists run story after story asking them to pay tax as it would in turn benefit Kenyans who elected them.
This caused a very big rift between MPs and members of the fourth estate.
It is thus believed that MPs passed the Communications Ammendment Act that gives power to the Minister for Internai Security to raid media houses, as a way to avenge their being pressured to pay taxes.
‘Please don’t stop the music’ sings Rihanna in her 2007hit, but if musicians have it their way it soon will.
Artists have joined forces to get songs banned from being used as passive torture devices at Guantanamo Bay.
Together with the organizationReprieveprojectZerodBhas been launched in order to end the practice, reports theTelegraph.
The campaign was introduced on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights according to Reprieve.
In protest some artists will have a minute of silence during concerts.
“I had no blanket or sheet. If I had, I would probably have tried suicide,” one former prisoner toldAP.
He was subjected to around the clock rock music during his stay.
Loud music was first introduced in order “to create fear and disorient detainee(s) and prolong capture shock.”
Its use was authorized by Iraq Lt Gen Ricardo Sanchez in a memo from 2003.
The practice has now been used in places like Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.
Many of the detainees are not accustom to rock music and therefore crack, said military spokesman to the press.
Musical meltdown
Bands like Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Eminem, Aerosmith, Limp Bizkit, Drowning Pool, Tupac Shakur and AC/DC have all been used during interrogation say reports.
The practice has upset many of these artists.
“It’s difficult for me to imagine anything more profoundly insulting, demeaning and enraging” wrote Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails in hisblog.
His songs are frequently blasted at the prisons.
Others musicians are proud to have their songs used by the US military.
Bands like Drowning Pool encourage using their music to break detainees.
“I take it as an honor to think that perhaps our song could be used to quell another 9/11 attack or something like that.” bassist Stevie Benton toldSpinmagazine.
Rock music is not the only genre used.
Theme songs to popular TV shows like ‘Barney and Friends’ and ‘Sesame Street’ have been played non-stop.
By 2009 the debate may soon end. President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to close Guantanamo Bay, ending the music once and for all.
Musicians like Reznor hope to see this promise fulfilled.
“Thank GOD this country has appeared to side with reason and we can put the Bush administration’s reign of power, greed, lawlessness and madness behind us.” he says at the end of his blog.
Torture mix-tape
According to various news sources here are the most commonly used songs by the US military.
According to Wikipedia, in 1994 Switzerland began a trial heroin about a program for users that had failed multiple withdrawal orograms.
The aim of this program is to mantain health of users in order to avoid mediacal problem stemming from illict street heroine and reducinig drug related crimes.
This trail involved 340 users, although enrollment was later expanded to 1000 based on the apparent success of the program. In fact participants are allowed to inject heroin in specially designed pharmacies for 15 Swiss Francs per dose.
It’s good to understand that the trail were based only on time limited executive ordinance.
A referendum in November 2008 showed that 68% of swiss voters approved the proposal of introducing heroin prescription into federal law.
Heroine History
Heroin was originally manufactured in 1978 by C.R. Alder Wight, an English chemist employed at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London.
From 1898 to 1910 heroin was advertised as a non-addictive morphine substitute and cough medicine for children.
Heroine Regulation around the word.
In Canada heroin is controlled substane under Schedule I of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA). Every person who seeks or obtains heroin without a previous authoruzation is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment.
In Hong Kong, heroin is regulated under Schedule 1 Chapter 134 titled Danderous Drugs Ordinance. It can be given by pharmacists under prescriptio. Anyone whosupplies heroin without prescription can be fine $ 10000 (HKD).
According to the British National Formulary (BNF) edition 50, diamorphine hydrochloride may be used in the treatment of acute pain, myocardial infarction, acute pulmonary oedema, and chronic pain. The treatment of chronic non-malignant pain must be supervised by a specialist. The BNF notes that all opioid analgesics cause dependence and tolerance but that this is “no deterrent in the control of pain in terminal illness”. When used in the palliative care of cancer patients, heroin is often injected using a syringe driver.
