Sleep depravation and political thought - a quick, fun poll
Greetings As many of you know, sleep depravation has been linked to a host of ills - all the way from increased accident rates to unkempt hair. Certainly all cognative function's are adversely...
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Top Comments of the Day / Margaritaville!
Hello and welcome to the Saturday edition of Top Comments! I've just come off of a late-night release at work so I've had NO sleep. Therefore you will find no pithy statements, no thoughtful...
View ArticleEven Declassified 1960s CIA Docs Called it Torture
For starters, I must give a hat tip to technopolitical over at Booman Tribune for leading me to this document. But it is simply amazing that, despite all of the talk about how much we can torture...
View ArticleWhy Sleep Deprivation is Torture
When we discuss torture, people tend to think of physical abuse. They have visions of naked people, strapped to chairs, getting punched, kicked, burned, electrocuted, etc. Since Abu Ghraib though...
View ArticleClinton and Sleep Deprivation
Hillary Clinton to explain away her Bosinia lie today. In an interview with the Conservative Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, She attribute her misstatment to "Sleep Deprivation".
View ArticleClinton habitually sleep deprived.
As a member of the DLC, it seems that most of Sen Clinton's campaign talking points may be misspoken due to sleep deprivation.
View ArticleTuzla Pilot Debunks Sniper Fire Story (With Video!)
Gonna keep things short today because its the weekend and I'm too obsessed with the caucuses in Texas to focus on much else, but someone sent me the link to this audio clip of the pilot who flew...
View ArticleSupreme Court: sleep deprivation 'torture', secret prisons 'objectionable'
This is pretty interesting to me. I am not a lawyer so I don't know how relevant this is. It's interesting though.In Ashcraft v. Tennessee (1944), there are some footnotes and references to other cases...
View ArticleTorture News Roundup: Breaking: al-Libi Found Dead in Libyan Prison (Updated)
This just in from Andy Worthington (H/T Barb):The Arabic media is ablaze with the news that Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, the emir of an Afghan training camp — whose claim that Saddam Hussein had been...
View ArticleReuters: Disappeared CIA Ghost Detainee Reported "Suicide"
We learn today of the death of at least one member of a group of CIA "ghost prisoners", captured detainees who have since simply disappeared, their current whereabouts still undisclosed. Bet you...
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Sleep Deprivation = Stress Position = Torture
Months ago, I suggested that one method of sleep deprivation was the use of stress positions. The Los Angeles Times confirmed, reporting that sleep deprivation was more controversial than the public...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Parenting Diary
Cross-posted at MotherTalkers.Good morning fellow moms, dads and caregivers!I am back with your weekly parenting news update. Here are some topics we recently discussed at MotherTalkers:
View ArticleProsecuting: Moving Beyond the Mancow Redux.
We watched Christopher Hitchens and Erich "Mancow" Muller spend a few seconds on a waterboard and emerge convinced that waterboarding is torture. While I welcome their conversions, their stunts really...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Parenting Diary
Cross-posted at MotherTalkers.Good morning fellow moms, dads and caregivers!I am back with your weekly parenting news update. Here are some topics we recently discussed at MotherTalkers:
View ArticleThe Poignant Combination of Waterboarding and Crucifixion
On Friday, June 18, the CIA Inspector General's report from May 2004 will be released, hopefully in an unredacted form. This report is anticipated to reveal the consequences of harsh detainee...
View ArticleTorture Autopsy Reveals Death by Enhanced Interrogation
Assuming there is not a third delay, the CIA Inspector General's review of the CIA's Interrogation Program under George Bush will be released tomorrow. Much has been written about waterboarding,...
View ArticleFlash: SERE Psychologists Still Used in Special Ops Interrogations and Detention
Originally posted at FiredoglakeThe great novelist William Faulkner famously wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past."With all the controversy over the use of Survival, Evasion, Escape,...
View ArticleMorning Joe Defends Bush/Torture. The GOP is scared, and for good reason
Memo: Attach Bush to torture = make them defend both. Though Morning Joe doesn't say Bush's name, I think we should, and Democrats will use this to pursue justice and Destroy the GOP. I consider...
View ArticleRelease the 42 CIA Documents on Binyam Mohamed's Torture
Originally posted at FiredoglakeThe recent decision of the UK High Court to release a seven paragraph summary of the torture perpetrated by U.S. agents upon Binyam Mohammed in April and early May 2002...
View ArticleFirst U.S. Trial of 'Child Soldier' in Modern History Starts This Week at Gitmo
On Tuesday, the Obama administration is scheduled to begin its first trial of a prisoner held at Guantanamo Bay. Omar Khadr was only 15 when he was captured in a firefight in 2002 with U.S. forces in...
View ArticleIs Sleep Deprivation Torture?
Is sleep deprivation torture?How about if the subject of sleep deprivation is a fourteen-year old?What if he is a fourteen-year old who was dragged out of his bed and his parents' home at two o'clock...
View ArticleParenting a Child With Autism - Silly Putty Edition
I wrote a diary yesterday that was about the earthquake in Mexico City.Well, it was supposed to be about the earthquake, but it was more about my feelings toward the earthquake and only later did I...
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Rita Cosby on Abused Women and Transcendental Meditation
By Rita Cosby, edited by Jim LuceNew York, N.Y. As a television journalist for more than twenty years, I have seen women and girls in their worst state, overwhelmed by their difficult ordeals from...
View ArticleThe Bush-era Torture Memo Obama Never Rescinded
Note: The following diary is not meant to trash Barack Obama. I spent a good deal of time researching it, and I had a lot of discussion with a DoD spokesman clarifying the issues. I stand by everything...
View ArticleA Report on the Black Jail at Bagram
In November 2009, both the New York Times and the Washington Post reported on the existence of a prison near Bagram air base, called the Black Jail.KABUL, Afghanistan — An American military detention...
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Worked To Death: Fatigue and the health professions, the dirty little secret.
The dirtiest secret of all in the health care professions is not insurance. It is about tired staff.On March 16, 2013, Registered Nurse Elizabeth Jasper had just gotten off work. She was driving her...
View ArticleWake up, Jack Bauer
everyone's favorite morally conflicted U.S. government torturer returns. on FOX of coursehttp://davidkeithlaw.wordpress.com/...
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APA Psychologists Complicit in Bush/Cheney Admin. Torture, Could Face Charges
(illustration by Mike Licht)From The New York Times:WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency’s health professionals repeatedly criticized the agency’s post-Sept. 11 interrogation program, but...
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Top Comments - 45's Brain and SLEEP
Last Wednesday, USA Today posted an article about 45’s horrible sleep habits and routines, postulating that lack of sleep could have an impact on his brain and performance.Occasion for the article was...
View ArticleWhatever Gets Me Through the Night . . .
Ever since the disastrous events of 8 November 2016 sleep and appetite have been elusive. I’ve lost between 10 and 15 kgs in weight because of the presidency of El Trumpo and, on many a troubled night,...
View ArticleHot Roofs Above Bedrooms Cause Sleep Deprivation: Can You Solve the Cool Roof...
© by Will DriscollPeople who sleep in a top-floor bedroom under a black asphalt roof are likely to lose sleep on summer nights due to the heat from the roof—with serious consequences. Technically, the...
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LMLOS News Round-up -- April 2, 2019 (With Poll Results)
It’s Tuesday, April 2, 2019, and time for the Liberal Minded Ladies of Substance news round-up. I’m going to do something I rarely do, and single out two news stories that I think everyone needs to...
View Article9/18 Open Thread: To Sleep, Perchance To Dream
It seems that my reading materials of late have been loaded with articles on sleep and various aspects thereof up to and including work being done on trying to "find a cure" for sleep (as if such a...
View Article🔹Can weird dreams make you smarter? This neuroscientist thinks so.
...when an AI system becomes too familiar with data, it can oversimplify its analysis, becoming an "overfitted brain" that assumes what it sees is a perfect representation of what it will encounter in...
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