Category Psychology
5 Craziest Cults Still Operating Today | The Strange List
The Nuwaubians originated as a Black Muslim group in New York in the 1970s. Some beliefs held by this religion include: aborted fetuses living in the sewers, where they are being gathered and organized to take over the world… Africans not originally being brown in complexion but green.. amongst many others.But you’re thinking.. as long […]
The Digital Firehose: Terrorism isn’t just for Muslims, but that doesn’t fit the mainstream narrative
The Digital Firehose: Terrorism isn’t just for Muslims, but that doesn’t fit the mainstream narrative – I suspect there is a very interesting reason why this news trend doesn’t fit the narrative. If Muslims had been found to be burning black churches you can bet that would be news. Then whoever claimed responsibility would be […]
New police unit in New York: The ruling elite prepares for class struggle – World Socialist Web Site
According to de Blasio’s Police Commissioner, William Bratton, the new force will be “designed for dealing with events like our recent protests [against police brutality] or incidents like Mumbai or what just happened in Paris.”The unit will be “equipped and trained in ways our normal patrol officers are not,” said Bratton in a speech to […]
US soldier admits killing family after raping girl | World news | The Guardian
The murders took place on March 12 in Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad. Prosecutors allege that five soldiers stationed at a checkpoint there raped the girl, Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, then burned her body to hide the evidence, and killed her father, mother and six-year-old sister.The alleged ringleader, Private Steven Green, was discharged from the […]
This woman is training psychopaths to be less psychopathic – Vox
Arielle Baskin-Sommers: It’s about 15 to 25 percent, depending on various estimates, and about 1 percent of the general population. Psychopaths account for some of the highest rates of recidivism of all offenders. This pretty severe group of individuals accounts for a huge cost to our society — not only in terms of criminal offending […]
CIA torture report: Former Agency chiefs criticise ‘partisan attack’ on the agency – Americas – World – The Independent
George Tenet, Porter Goss and Michael Hayden jointly challenged the main findings – that the CIA lied about the extent of the torture, which included waterboarding, wall slamming and “rectal feeding” of prisoners, and that the interrogations yielded no useful intelligence. “The committee has given us … a one-sided study marred by errors of fact […]
FBI’s “Suicide Letter” to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Dangers of Unchecked Surveillance | Electronic Frontier Foundation
The anonymous letter was the result of the FBI’s comprehensive surveillance and harassment strategy against Dr. King, which included bugging his hotel rooms, photographic surveillance, and physical observation of King’s movements by FBI agents. The agency also attempted to break up his marriage by sending selectively edited “personal moments he shared with friends and women” […]
Revealed: FBI attempted to drive MLK to suicide — RT USA
On Tuesday, Beverly Gage wrote for the New York Times about the history of the letter which, until then, had been largely shrouded in secrecy, as have other clandestine FBI operations that sought to discredit alleged opponents of the United States government under the helm of then director J Edgar Hoover through a covert campaign […]
While FBI Finds Police Killings on the Rise, Real Number of Killings Remains Uknown | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
The FBI’s Uniform Crime Report (UCR), which collects data voluntarily submitted by police departments, looked only at killings which police considered “justifiable homicide,” defined by the bureau as “the killing of a felon by a law enforcement officer in the line of duty.” There were 461 justifiable homicides reported last year, up from 426 in […]
Military suicides an ‘epidemic,’ says Canadian expert | Ottawa Citizen
“There is no question that it is at epidemic proportions,” he added. “Why would there be so many soldiers in the U.S. dying by suicide and not in Canada? The Canadian military’s answer is that it’s because of excellent care and excellent leadership but are the Americans so poor that they are not providing adequate care […]
Why Are Americans So Easy to Manipulate and Control? | Alternet
Similarly, researcher Paul Thorne reports in the journal International Management “Fitting Rewards,” 1990 that in order to get people to behave in a particular way, they must be “needy enough so that rewards reinforce the desired behavior.”It is also easiest to condition people who dislike what they are doing. Rewards work best for those who are alienated from their […]
How Jennifer Williams, A Tattooed, Blonde Muslim From Texas Became An ISIS Twitter Star
“You know you’re dealing with some serious Islamic hardliners when they blur out your face to protect Islamic modesty,” she wrote. “It’s also interesting that they chose to make it blurry rather than to black it out entirely—I suppose they did that so you could still tell that I was a blonde, white American girl. […]
REPORT: New York City Television Stations Give Lopsided Coverage To Black Crime | Research | Media Matters for America
Coverage Of Cases Involving Black Suspects Outpaced Historical Arrest Rates From NYPD Statistics. In stories where race could be identified, the percentage of African-American suspects in murders, thefts, and assaults covered by WCBS, WNBC, WABC, and WNYW was well above the percentage of African-American suspects who have been arrested for those crimes in New York […]
DoD: Military Equipment Helps Local Police Do Their Job
“By and large — and I’m speaking like any American citizen, and I’m sure you guys would agree with me — that law enforcement all over the country has a hard job to do,” Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby told reporters, as quoted by Politico. “And 99 percent of them all do it […]
Troubling new video shows excessive force was ordered at Denver jail | The Colorado Independent
Meantime, footage from another video camera shows a team of sheriff’s officials gathering outside his door with equipment to restrain him – presumably to prevent him from hurting himself and medicate him. They stood outside watching for several minutes as Moreno continued to slam his head into the cinder blocks. At one point, he touched […]
Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com
Launched in 2008 – the year of the global banking crisis – the DoD ‘Minerva Research Initiative’ partners with universities “to improve DoD’s basic understanding of the social, cultural, behavioral, and political forces that shape regions of the world of strategic importance to the US.”Among the projects awarded for the period 2014-2017 is a Cornell […]
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