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POPSPhysicians, medics, wardens, advocates, are torturing Palestinians. The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) on Wednesday slammed thee High Court's approval of the use of controversial methods to interrogate Palestinians deemed as “ticking bombs,” saying the ruling was interpreted by the Shin Bet as a green light to torture almost every Palestinian detainee.
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POPS26% of Americans don't know that earth revolves around sun (my understanding is that the 71.2% who correctly said that it takes the earth 1 year to revolve around the sun is actually 71.2% of the 73.6% of respondents who correctly said the earth revolves around the sun. That means that only 52.4% of all Americans know it takes the earth one year to revolve around the sun. That noise you just heard is my jaw hitting the floor. Via Kieran Healy at Crooked Timber
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POPSOn the Conservatives-Are-More-Generous Study Jim Lindgren has a measured discussion of the Arthur Brooks' book Who Really Cares and his own paper "Testing Social Dominance: Is Support for Capitalism and Opposition to Income Redistribution Driven by Racism and Intolerance?". One thing he says is that Brooks is using suspect data to show that conservatives give more than liberals. In the data Brooks uses (the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey) liberals have higher incomes than conservatives, which goes against every representative survey of Americans--most other surveys show conservatives earning more than liberals. On the whole, though, Lindgren likes Brooks' book and has his own paper which shows that conservatives are more likely to donate than liberals are (although Brooks' own analysis challenges this).
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POPSB'tselem: IDF soldiers may have executed wounded men This incident in Al- Yamun is not the first of its kind. In May 2005, B'Tselem released a report that examined four operations conducted in the previous year to arrest Palestinians wanted by Israeli forces. The report indicated that soldiers behaved in these operations as if they were conducting assassinations rather than arrest operations, in blatant violation of IHL. In two of the cases, Israeli forces had already "neutralized" a person defined as wanted, and subsequently shot him to death. In the first case, soldiers shot a man who had raised his arms in surrender. In the second case, soldiers killed a man who had been injured, and was lying unarmed on the ground. Via Electronic Intifada
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POPSStudy: Americans More Isolated Now Than in Eighties A sociology study, soon to be published in the American Sociological Review , finds that Americans have fewer confidents with whom they discuss important matters than they did in the 1980s. The number of Americans with no such confidants has increased dramatically, and is the modal response. Via Kieran Healy at Crooked Timber , who has a nice discussion of the study.
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