Posts Tagged: torture

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Sep 09

Daily Links for September 25th through September 26th

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Sep 09

Daily Links for September 21st through September 23rd

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  • Trendsmap – Real-time local Twitter trends – Trendsmap.com is a real-time mapping of Twitter trends across the world. See what the global, collective mass of humanity are discussing right now.
  • Ryan Sager – Neuroworld – The Tortured Brain – True/Slant – Professor Shane O’Mara, of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience in Dublin, Ireland, did not examine the brains of victims of American torture. But he analyzes the likely effects of torture on the brain, based on the vast existing literature on the effects of extreme stress on motivation, mood and memory, using both animals and humans.

    He concludes, essentially, that torture is likely to destroy the very memories it’s trying to extract.

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Aug 09

Daily Links for August 31st

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  • The Washington Monthly: HURTING DICK CHENEY’S FEELINGS…. – I seem to recall the Bush/Cheney era a little differently. Cheney thinks it was a sterling success when it came to national security and counter-terrorism. Perhaps there's something to this. After all, except for the catastrophic events of 9/11, and the anthrax attacks against Americans, and terrorist attacks against U.S. allies, and the terrorist attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Bush's inability to capture those responsible for 9/11, and waging an unnecessary war that inspired more terrorists, and the success terrorists had in exploiting Bush's international unpopularity, the Bush/Cheney record on counter-terrorism was awesome.
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Aug 09

Daily Links for August 28th

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  • tortureteam.org – While most people know the names of the principal players on the “Torture Team”—Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice—there are many more members of the team who must be investigated and prosecuted. We’ve created 20 “Torture Team” trading cards (“collect and prosecute them all!”) and a matching website to push the attorney general to allow the Special Prosecutor to investigate as far up the chain of command as the evidence leads. It was thanks to your help that we saw the appointment of a Special Prosecutor this week at all. A year ago, they said it would never happen, but we persevered because we knew it was the only way to make sure we never went down this dark path again.
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Jun 09

Daily Links for June 9th

  • 2008-2009 Food Scare Timeline – GoodEater.org – A timeline of the recent food scares.
  • The CIA’s Interrogation "Menu" – A big factor in people’s thinking was that these techniques were used in the training of U.S. Special Operations Forces,” the former intelligence official told me about SERE training. “If it was something that had been done to U.S. forces… although admittedly very tough… then it couldn’t be considered torture.”
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May 09

Daily Links for May 22nd through May 23rd

  • Rankings – Best Places to Work – The Best Places to Work rankings — the most comprehensive and authoritative rating of employee satisfaction and commitment in the federal government — are produced by the Partnership for Public Service and American University's Institute for the Study of Public Policy Implementation (ISPPI).
  • 13 Characteristics of Outstanding Blog Design | Webdesigner Depot – There are plenty of sources available for designers who are seeking inspiration from high quality blog design, but it’s also important to understand specifically what will influence and determine the success of a blog theme design. In this article we’ll examine 13 characteristics that separate great blog themes from the rest.
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May 09

Daily Links for May 22nd

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22
May 09

Politics, Threat Levels, and Torture

I’d really like to see how the developing torture timeline correlates to the historical political climate (with Bush’s approval ratings, news coverage, and web sentiment as proxies) and the periodic raising and lowering of the threat levels. 

Someone should make a chart or something.

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20
May 09

When a blogger owns a story…

Most blogs and/or bloggers have an issue, topic, subject, or event that they simply own and dominate.  Brendan Skwire has been doing just that with the Inquirer’s disastrous hiring of John Yoo as a columnist.  Read all of his posts on Yoo, or his open letter on the subject.  As is usually the case, the Inky (in the form of Harold Jacksons) dismisses the controversy (and boycott) and blames the bloggers (via Philebrity), including Daily News journalist, author, and blogger Will Bunch:

Unfortunately, most of the critics of our contract with Yoo have their facts wrong.  Read more...

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May 09

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