Since my April 22 post, Torture In Context, I’ve noticed a number of people pursuing the same logical conclusion from slightly different angles: The reverse engineered SERE torture resistance training used on various al Qaeda captives was not designed to produce actionable intelligence but to elicit false confessions to support the case for the invasion of Iraq. These have included …
Geithner & Summers manning the oars after Bush decided to empty the boat’s bilges by drilling a hole in its bottom Bush sinks the economic ship of state. Obama launches the life rafts, piloted by Wall Street insiders Timmeh Geithner and Larry Summers. But the sharks (hedge funds, private equity firms) are circling and there’s lots of stormy weather ahead. …
Ever since the collapse of what passed for a legitimate government in Somalia in the early 1990s, the Horn of Africa has suffered at least two major insults. Firstly, it has become a dumping ground for a lot of European toxic waste, including nuclear waste (a major profit center for the Italian mafia). This has been in keeping with a …
A house built by slaves… Well, there goes the neighborhood. Huffpo reports that: Obama Plans To Invite Artists, Scientists, Poets To White House To Inspire “National Character” It cites a Politico.com article that reads: President-elect Obama says he and Michelle Obama plan to open the White House to local pupils as a “bully pulpit” to inspire youth to reach for …
A Mind’s Eye View of Star Trek’s The Game In Star Trek: The Next Generation’s The Game (Episode 106, first aired 10/28/91), the crew of the Enterprise becomes totally addicted to a virtual reality game brought aboard the ship from an alien world. A slick pair of VR specs sends visual imagery to brain, energizing the brain’s serotonin and …
He may as well be a brother from another planet: “Greetings; Take me as I am— not as you think I should be.” The “new politics” of Barack Obama are leaving many Americans lost in his dust. Traditionally they may have been categorized— and understood themselves to be— “liberals,” “conservatives,” “progressives,” “Republicans,” “Democrats,” and “Independents.” Not so surprisingly, a sizable …
