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...
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