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POPSTorture Interferes with Memory Among other things, torture can interfere with the brain's memory retrieval apparatus, making it counterproductive to the aim of producing useful information.
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POPSTexting instead of sleeping
This is so disturbing. Social media has such wonderful potential, but seeing it used like this is depressing. Call me crazy but i would strongly consider advocating legislation that caps the number of text messages, tweets, status updates, etc. that a minor is allowed to send. God knows how many of them text while driving, putting us all at great risk. Between twitter and text messaging, society's use of social tools to stay connected 24x7 all day, every day just makes no sense to me. Seeing tweets about what people are doing, who they're with, where they're going, what they're eating, what they're watching just makes no sense to me. Who cares! Is there no joy in doing something anymore unless we can instantly tweet about it, upload a photo of it or broadcast it to our 'friends' on facebook? I think there is so much to gain from social media...so much to learn. But right now i feel like people are drunk on the idea and using it extreme ways that will look foolish in hinds
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POPSWhy Did The DoD Ignore Requests From Their Own Attorney For A War Crimes Investigation? Air Force Maj. David Frakt, the attorney for former detainee Mohammed Jawad, says over the past 16 months he sent multiple memos to Defense Department and military leaders asking them to account for what a military judge called “abusive conduct and cruel and inhuman treatment” of his client. Jawad, who was arrested when he says he was 12 years old for allegedly tossing a grenade at U.S. military, was moved from cell to cell 112 times during a 14-day period to disrupt his sleep patterns, according to military documents. Frakt said he believes the treatment constituted torture, violated the Geneva Convention, war crime laws and Defense Department regulations.
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POPSPlease let this be the future of travelling by plane Having just survived 2 24-hour transit times in less than 30 days (and uncomfortable ones at that), this just really grabbed my attention and sounds absolutely fascinating. I just hope that the seats recline a bit more.... More at the source, as well as the plans for first and business classes
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POPSChain Smoking & Staying Up Late (or Sleep Deprivation) Increase the Risk of Heart Attack http://life.chinatimes.com/2009Cti/Channel/Life/life-article/0,5047,130518+132009092201091,00.html http://life.chinatimes.com/2009Cti/Channel/Life/life-article/0,5047,130518+132009092200887,00,focus.html 兩份工作讓他日夜都操勞，一天只有3~4小時睡眠時間，折騰自己身體的結果，就是換來年紀輕輕心肌梗塞上身。 雙和醫院心臟內科主治醫師劉順鑫解釋，熬夜抽菸是年輕人罹患心肌梗塞大元兇，主因在於抽菸會有血管硬化，產生斑塊風險，熬夜則會讓血管發炎指數升高，促使血管斑塊剝離，導致斑塊阻塞血管，成為年輕型心肌梗塞患者。 如何把關血管發炎問題，心臟內科主治醫師郝文瑞表示，可透過抽血檢驗「高敏感度C反應蛋白」(Hs-CRP)，瞭解自己血管發炎程度，研究發現，血中發炎指數越高，罹患冠心病的風險最高達4.4倍。 「一般我們都認為高膽固醇或是有抽煙比較容易有心肌梗塞，但事實上HsCRP指數偏高的人他發生心肌梗塞的機會呢，會比一般正常人來說，大概高出了最高可以高到四倍的機率。」 Hs-CRP若超過0.3就代表身體裡有發炎、感染或組織壞死等情形，是可監測血管發炎程度的早期指標，抽血檢驗約需自費數百元，郝文瑞說，這項檢驗比起傳統檢驗敏感性高，能夠更早揪出血管發炎問題，防範未然，若確認血管發炎，應修正自己生活習慣，避菸酒熬夜，經醫師評估是否服藥治療。 醫師提醒，臨床發現，有半數心肌梗塞患者，其實血脂肪正常，但血管卻已經有動脈硬化、血管壁越來越增厚問題，埋下不定時炸彈，血管土石流隨時可能奪命。
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POPSHow Our Interrogations Got KSM to Talk Thanks to the ACLU, the whole world now knows what “torture” means in the United States. Here’s a partial list: Sleep deprivation “insult slaps” water dousing “walling” (slamming a detainee’s head against a wall) Apparently, American-style torture consists of attending a frat party.
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POPS It’s A Complex, Complex, Complex World Along with the Predator strikes on compounds full of women and children, it should be good for a while. Knock on wood. Maguire, snarking cruelly, suggests Obama “will have to try harder to make the case that his current approach will keep America safe.” I dunno, he seems to have been handed a free throw. At least for now, absent, you know … The WaPo Takes Cheney's Side On Enhanced Interrogation by Tom McGuire WaPo sidles up to Dick Cheney. . . Let's just go back in time to the summer of 2008 when Scott Shane of the NY Times covered a lot of this ground. It appears that Obama will have to try harder to make the case that his current approach will keep America safe. right now all interrogations must comply with the Army Field Manual; Obama has a group still studying the belly slap, annoying rock and roll, walling, sleep deprivation, and the waterboard. I stand by my guess that when he thinks no one is looking Obama will re-instate everything except
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POPSNew CIA Docs Detail Brutal "Extraordinary Rendition" Process
All of these practices are carefully engineered to facilitate the interrogation process. Nudity, sleep deprivation and dietary manipulation are used as standard preparatory steps. It then details the standard "corrective techniques:" these are a series of physical assaults labeled with innocuous titles like insult slap, abdominal slap, facial hold and attention grasp. "Coercive techniques" used include: walling (slamming a prisoner's head against the wall, with some protective measures to avoid severe injuries), water dousing, the use of the stress position (known to the inquisition as the strapado, to the Germans in World War II as Pfahlbinden), wall standing (referred to by the NKVD and KGB as stoika) and cramped confinement. Because of substantial redactions, it seems unlikely that this list is complete. None of this information is surprising. In fact it all tallies perfectly with the description of the renditions program that can be derived from the report prepared by the Intern
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POPSTechnology and Family Life Forget the alarm clock; send your kids a text message to wake them up in the morning. Must face-to-face interaction with those closest to us be sacrificed in our quest to connect with the world through technology?
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POPSTechnology for Breakfast via @kmaverick Just checked out this eye opening story recommended by @kmaverick. Aside from reminding me that I am often guilty of the same habits noted, the theme of the article underscores a big reason why the traditional newspaper business is suffering so badly.
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POPSTorture is always wrong
"That's right; sodomy. Forcible anal penetration. The documentation of this and other forms of sexual humiliation is too extensive to be denied or pawned off on a couple of redneck privates. And we know now that sexual humiliation techniques were among those discussed and approved by the National Security Principals Committee, a White House group including Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, George Tenet and John "History will not judge this kindly" Ashcroft. I don't want to come off as minimizing the horror of controlled drowning. It's just that there's something about anal rape that brings the torture issue into sharp focus. Just once, I'd like to hear one of these American Enterprise Institute psychos, the ones that always trot out to defend the neocons' freakish obsessions, have to defend shoving a flashlight up a guy's ass. I want to hear Frank Gaffney or Jonah Goldberg tell me why I shouldn't be fucking mortified that raping prisoners was considere
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POPSAt least 100 people tortured TO DEATH by American forces Since WWII enemies on the battlefield have surrendered to American troops because they believed they would be treated humanely and not abused by the Americans in uniform. This was true as recently as Iraq 1.0. We used to be the good guys. Now? We're a nation of laws. We can't just sweep dozens of murders due to White House-approve torture and have any sort of moral legitimacy internationally beyond that of an armed thug. I think this country is better than that.
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POPSobama man, i knew it! he is not any better than bush, actually hes worse
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