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Hiding CIA Torture Evidence in the Name of Fighting “Terrorism”

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Jose Rodriguez defends the government act of hiding torture evidence in his new book, "Hard Measures"

Jose Rodriguez defends the government act of hiding torture evidence in his new book, “Hard Measures”

Ex-CIA Chief Defends Hiding Torture Evidence, But We Need to Know the Truth:
http://blog.amnestyusa.org/us/ex-cia-chief-defends-hiding-torture-evidence-but-we-need-to-know-the-truth/

() It feels like we have been here before. Another testosterone-fueled memoir from a charter member of President Bush’s torture team unapologetically seeks to justify the unjustifiable with inflated claims of attacks thwarted and secret battles won.

Latest to the plate is Jose Rodriguez, former Head of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, and the man charged with implementing the application of enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs) to detainees that fell into the CIA’s clutches after 9/11.

Rodriguez was not always quite so willing to boast about his handiwork. In 2005 he destroyed 92 videotapes of high value detainees Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri being water-boarded at secret CIA prisons in Thailand.

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My Commentary: “Defends hiding evidence.” Read that a few times in a row. Critical thinking is key here. When, where and why does “evidence” typically require “hiding”? Also, what technically constitutes “criminal conspiracy”? Here’s a helpful clue: http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/conspiracy.html

Cowards-That-Be Addicted to Dark Ecstasy

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Power Really Does Corrupt as Scientists Claim it’s as Addictive as Cocaine:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2136547/Power-really-does-corrupt-scientists-claim-addictive-cocaine.html

More than a hundred years after noted historian Baron John Acton coined the phrase ‘power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’ scientists claim the saying is biologically true.

The feeling of power has been found to have a similar effect on the brain to cocaine by increasing the levels of testosterone and its by-product 3-androstanediol in both men and women.

This in turn leads to raised levels of dopamine, the brain’s reward system called the nucleus accumbens, which can be very addictive.

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My Commentary: DARK ECSTASY: the drug of choice for the Cowards-that-Be.

State of Israel Continues to Engage in Politics of Discrimination

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"Meeting of university heads, 2008: One woman, Prof. Rivka Carmi, third from right, no Arabs."

“Meeting of university heads, 2008: One woman, Prof. Rivka Carmi, third from right, no Arabs.”

Israel’s Politics of Discrimination:
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-s-politics-of-discrimination-1.426528

(Eva Illouz) Discrimination is the sophisticated, less blunt, distant cousin of racism. It has the same effects as racism − ranking people by birth − without, necessarily, the same intentions, which is why discrimination is mostly and most often an invisible mechanism. This is also the reason why some legal provisions suggest evaluating discrimination on the basis of facts. But facts alone do not scrutinize the mindset of people working in organizations. If, for example, women represent 50 percent of the population, Arabs and Mizrahim constitute 60 percent of the population and if all three groups have almost never been represented among the rectors, presidents and deans, or been recipients of scientific awards of Israeli universities, we need not enter the minds of the people who make these decisions to suspect discrimination. The proof is in the famous pudding.

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My Commentary: Discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, religion, etc… IS PURE FALLACY! Why do some countries get a free pass to engage in this disgusting behavior, while others are outright condemned? :sigh: Critical thinking is at an all-time low in this world.

Freedom is a Universally Sacred!

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Lab Chimps Laugh And Hug At Taste Of Freedom:
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Lab Chimps Laugh And Hug At Taste Of Freedom:
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/lab-chimps-laugh-hug-taste-freedom-162813744.html

The emotional moment a group of chimpanzees saw daylight for the first time after being kept in a laboratory for their whole lives has been caught on film.

The video shows the animals edging out of the door hesitantly at first and looking curiously up at the sky.

But they then appear to celebrate their new found freedom by hugging each other and laughing.

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My Commentary: A beautiful thing to witness…