Albert Einstein

our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children  — Albert Einstein

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The Complicity of Psychologists in CIA Torture

The Complicity of Psychologists in CIA TortureEarlier this week the Senate Intelligence Committee released the long-awaited executive summary of its 6,000-page classified report on the CIA’s brutal post-9/11 detention and interrogation program. The report provides gruesome details of the abuse that took place in several “black site” prisons – waterboarding, confinement in a coffin-sized box, threatened harm to family members, forced nudity, freezing temperatures, “rectal feeding” without medical need, stress positions, diapering, days of sleep deprivation, and more.

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CIA paid Poland to host its secret prisons and detainees

Hush money: CIA paid Poland to host its secret prisons and detaineesThe CIA paid at least a million dollars to Poland for it to host secret prisons, where it incarcerated alleged 9/11 terror suspects, according to the recent US torture report. Warsaw had initially tried to halt the transfer of suspects, but after a generous offer, it suddenly became more “flexible.

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Bank of America ordered to pay Tampa family $1 million for harassing calls

Bank of America ordered to pay Tampa family $1 million for harassing callsTAMPA – For four years, Joyce and Nelson Coniglio were haunted by these words: This is Bank of America calling. The calls started in 2009 when B of A took over the mortgage the Coniglios used to buy a second home in their Tampa Heights neighborhood. They quickly fell behind.

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Beyond Money in Politics: Corruption Now “Business as Usual”

Beyond Money in Politics: Corruption Now “Business as Usual”JANINE WEDEL, jwedel at gmu.edu Wedel, an anthropologist and professor at George Mason University’s School of Policy, Government and International Affairs, is the author of the just-released Unaccountable: How Elite Power Brokers Corrupt our Finances, Freedom and Security. She recently wrote in USA Today: “What do the words ‘dark money’ mean to you?

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