Archive for the 'Foreign' Category
Israel declines to ask U.S. to OK Iran attack
Snipped from WashingtonTimes.com.
The psychology of fear is an interesting study. Fear can turn a normally rational, lucid human being into a raving lunatic that couldn’t see logic if it smacked him in the face.
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North Korea Attacking Hawaii?
Snipped from HuffingtonPost.com.
Is N. Korea really going to attack Hawaii, or Japan or anyone? Well, I don’t know, but John Feffer, from Foreign Policy In Focus, gives some rational reasons as to why the threat is not what it may seem.
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Shell to Pay-off its Human Rights Abuses
Snipped from HuffingtonPost.com.
It seems as though another company is involved in more human rights abuses, and this time, it is really disgusting.
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The Torture Debate: Part 3
My last reply to those pro-torturers were some powerful quotes from testimonies of those that are experts in the field. I wanted to share them with you as well. Enjoy.
“The point is not whether the CIA program produced useful intelligence. Of course it did. Quite a lot. The CIA had exclusive custody of a number of the most important al Qaeda captives in the world, for years. Any good interrogation effort would produce an important flow of information from these captives.
The New Economy Model?
America needs to search for a new economy model with new underpinnings because the preoccupation of our society with the acquisition of consumer goods is finished forthwith. The Obama administration is valiantly trying to recoup the old same old, same old. The restoration of our as-was economy and as-was lifestyle may be impossible.
Consumers, Americans are not, no longer. Our capitalism thrived in the past on different underpinnings that have come and gone, like the cotton, slave-labored plantations before the Civil War. We have had agricultural underpinnings, industrial underpinnings. In the last two decades or so we, somehow, became a society of consumers. We purchased and purchased, on credit, zilch savings.
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The Torture Debate: Part 2
Someone replied to what I wrote with a question about what security measures I would use instead of torture. So, my reply is pasted below.
Although I thought this was just a debate about the use of torture, I will happily address my beliefs on how to improve the security of our nation. Before I go into it, I would just like to say that we are addressing torture as if it is our only security measure and without it, we are blind to future crises. This is far from the truth, and I am giving you the benefit of the doubt that you understand this.
Fact: Torture is known to produce unreliable information and false confessions. Once the information is gathered, how does one disseminate the difference between the valid and non-valid information? That takes time and resources. Poor and/or unreliable information is what created the initiative with the Iraq war, so we can without a doubt say that unreliable information can be costly, if not down right dangerous. With that being said, using it as the foundation for security measures is a very weak and unreliable method for information gathering.
