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POPSThe New Science of Fear: Can It Predict Bravery at 13,500 Feet?
"Mujica-Parodi says:"You're kind of like a rubber band, in that when you go up, you come back down right away. You're conserving your sympathetic dominance for when it's actually needed." These results, Mujica-Parodi says, mirror those of my fMRI session. It's not that I stayed cool when I was plummeting toward earth—"You were in actual danger," she says, so "a strong excitatory response was appropriate"—but that when I wasn't falling I suppressed the fear response and conserved my energy. The upshot: I might do well at keeping calm in the face of lethal danger, as most firemen and policemen do. More important, my results seem to reinforce Mujica-Parodi's theory, which could mean that in the future recruiters for the military and law enforcement will have a way to screen applicants for the most suitable training and job assignments. Our conversation turns back to the sky dive. "Would you go again?" Mujica-Parodi asks. "I think so," I tell her. But not right now. Maybe in a fe
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POPSFilipino Immigration officer sacked in human smuggling incident Reports said the 17 passengers were apprehended by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation at the newly opened NAIA 3 terminal as they were about to board a Cebu Pacific Airlines flight to Hong Kong en route to the Middle East. Initial investigation showed the minors are natives of Maguindanao and Cotabato in Mindanao and their passports were tampered with photographs of look-alikes.
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POPSChristian Recruiters I couldn't help but picture this "harvest" as the missionaries lop off peoples critical thinking with their dogmatic blades.
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POPSSoldier refuses to serve in illegal war
Former army sergeant Kristofer Goldsmith told the landmark hearing of "lawless murders, looting and the abuse of countless Iraqis." He spoke of the psychologically fragile men and women who return from Iraq to find little help or treatment offered from official circles. Goldsmith said he had "self-medicated" for several months to treat the wounds of the war. Another soldier told AFP he had to boost his medication to treat anxiety and social agoraphobia -- two of many lingering mental wounds he carries since his deployments in Iraq -- before testifying. Some 300,000 of the 1.6 million US soldiers who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression or both, an independent study showed last month. A group of veterans in the packed hearing room gazed blankly as their comrades' testimonies shattered the official version that the US effort in Iraq is succeeding. Almost to a man, the testifiers denounced serious flaws in the chain o
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POPSSchool Military Recruiting Could Violate International Protocol
THIS HORRIBLE PRACTICE BY THE MILITARY HAS GOT TO STOP--OUR CHILDREN ARE NOT CANNON FODDER FOR STUPID OLD MEN'S WARS!! the U.S. armed services “regularly target children under 17 for military recruitment, heavily recruiting on high school campuses, in school lunchrooms, and in classes.” “The United States military’s procedures for recruiting students plainly violate internationally accepted standards and fail to protect youth from abusive and aggressive recruitment tactics,” said Jennifer Turner of the ACLU Human Rights Project. The increased aggressiveness of military recruiters is due in major part, according to the report, to the increased pressure to meet enlistment quotas caused by ongoing U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan to which nearly 200,000 soldiers and marines are currently deployed. The pressure created by current military commitments has not only translated into enhanced recruitment efforts among children under 18. The armed forces have also lower
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POPSArmy Recruiters Caught lying on tape! This site has many videos of real recruiters lying directly to potential recruits, having them fake diplomas, offering to give them immigration status for family, telling them how to beat drug tests. So much for dignity, truth an honor. This exact same thing happened to me when i was younger during non-war times. I even signed up but refused to give the final pledge. Thats the point of no return. I was threatened with jail etc. But walked away. Not much can be clipped from this site, but it is well worth the visit.
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POPS TELL BERKELEY, CA: YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED The Berkeley, California City Council has let it be known that they think United State Marine recruiters are "uninvited and unwelcome intruders" in their city. They voted to oust Marine recruiters from their offices and granted Code Pink protesters space to impeded the work of the Marine Corps recruiters. Their anti-war beliefs have distorted their ability carry out their responsibilities as government officials.
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POPSMexican Migrant Workers in "Slave-Like Conditions" "So they decided to organize. The workers invited us to a meeting and described their conditions. We told them that as African Americans, we recognized what they were describing, and we were with them. The next day the workers walked off the plantation to demand their dignity. A delegation of African Americans attempted to conduct a citizen’s arrest of Relan on charges of violating the federal laws that define slavery, peonage, human trafficking, and servitude in the United States. We read him his rights, and told him that he was violating the laws our ancestors fought for. He was forced to return the passports but Relan still struck back: He fired the workers and illegally evicted them."
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POPSBerkeley vs. the Marines "Intellectual" airheads. Completely and totally un-American. Our Constitution grants them the right to be dim-bulbs. AND in case of a national emergency, the Marines are obligated to protect their municipality. Americans who continue to bite the hand that feeds them.
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POPSInnocent Flesh-- Recruiting Kids to Kill CONTINUING... I mention all this in relation to a recent news item from the Associated Press stating that the group the Pentagon calls Al-Qaida in Iraq is recruiting and training teenagers. For the moment, let's assume that this article is true and is not some kind of fake news planted by US psy-ops. According to the story, some videos were found in an operation against insurgents. According to Rear Admiral Smith of the US Navy, the videos "were meant to spread Al Qaida's message among the young rather than train the boys for missions." This was not the first time such videos had been found, the story continued, but "it was the most disturbing." Now, if I understand this right, the US military is appalled and disturbed because some Iraqi insurgent groups (that may or may not have anything to do with Al Qaida in Iraq) are using videos to propagandize among adolescents in the hope that they will enlist. Meanwhile, the US military, which is engaged in the same type of operations as
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