Stephen Lendman

Terry Kupers is a practicing psychiatrist, an expert on long-term isolated prison confinement, author of numerous articles on the subject as well as his book titled, "Prison Madness: The Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars and What We Must Do About It." He's also a frequent expert witness in related cases, serves as a consultant, and is currently Institute Professor in the Graduate School of Psychology at Wright Institute, Berkeley, CA. More on his work below.

Social scientists have studied the effects for years, social psychologist Hans Toch coining the term "isolation panic" to describe symptoms he observed in men he interviewed, including panic, rage, a sense of total loss of control, emotional breakdown, regressive behavior, and self-mutiliation. He distinguished between difficult but tolerable incarceration and intolerable long-term isolation.

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Chris Floyd

Fallujah child victim. Attack on Fallujah by US troops, April 2004,
seven months before the war crimes committed by US military high
command in November 2004. (albasrah.net / thewe.cc)

The other day I was reading the New York Review of Books in a bookstore café. I saw a large ad in the bottom corner of a page; it began with this quote, in bold capitals:

"WHY IS IT A CRIME FOR ONE MAN TO MURDER ANOTHER, BUT NOT FOR A GOVERNMENT TO KILL MORE THAN A MILLION PEOPLE?"

My first reaction, before I read further, was a feeling of surprise that someone had articulated the case against the Iraq war so clearly – and had bought expensive space in the magazine to bring this unpunished, unrepented – indeed, unacknowledged – war crime to the national consciousness again.

A moment later, I saw that it was actually an ad for an exhibition in New York City about Raphael Lemkin, the Polish-Jewish exile and U.S. government advisor who first coined the term and developed the concept of "genocide." Under a picture of Lemkin's wartime government ID card, the ad goes on: "Before Raphael Lemkin, that kind of killing had no name. Today we know it as genocide."

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På Høyden
En diskusjon

[Denne diskusjonen begynte den 8.4.2010. Alle innleggene vil bli publisert her på den samme URL.]

25.5.2010
Klimaskepsis på tynn is
Helge Drange, Tor Eldevik, Tore Furevik og Eystein Jansen, Bjerknessenteret

Kvalheim og Sletten (K&S) har i det siste hyppig søkt til Bjerknessenteret for hjelp til å forstå sammenhengen mellom CO2 og global oppvarming (På Høyden 8.4, 19.4 og 7.5). De har tydeligvis ikke funnet våre svar (På Høyden 12.4 og 11.5) hensiktsmessige. I sitt siste innlegg har de derfor gått bort frå å spørre til selv å konkludere: Klimamodellene har for høy ”klimafølsomhet” (På Høyden 19.5).

Dette gjør de med henvisning til et kommende arbeid av Spencer & Braswell (2010). Som K&S burde kjenne til, også etter siste tiders brevveksling med Bjerknessenteret, er det en omfattende faglitteratur som viser det motsatte. K&S velger ikke å anerkjenne denne.

Overnevnte omgang med faglitteraturen følger samme praksis som leserinnlegget Hvorfor feiler klimamodellene? av Kvalheim i Teknisk Ukeblad 16.11.2009 (med påfølgende tilsvar fra Bjerknessenteret). I Kvalheims innlegg ble blant annet en studie av Lindzen & Choi (2009) brukt for å illustrere klimamodellenes svakheter. Allerede da Kvalheims innlegg ble publisert, var det allment kjent at det var metodiske svakheter ved Lindzen & Choi.

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Stephen Lendman

The Law Offices of Richard I. Fine & Associates (richardfinelaw.com) web site says he established the firm in 1974. His credentials include a Doctor of Law from the University of Chicago, a Ph.D in International Law from the London School of Economics, a Certificate from the Hague Academy of International Law, among his many other awards, including Lawyer of the Decades 1976 - 2006.

He's also been widely published in legal journals with regard to antitrust, comparative and international law. Fine's resume is long and impressive.

Before entering private practice, he "founded and was chief of the first municipal antitrust division in the United States, for the City of Los Angeles." He was also Special Counsel to the Government Efficiency Committee of the LA City Council, and a member of the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division.

In addition, he practiced law in London and with another firm before establishing his own. He was also Norway's Southern California Consul General.

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Socialistisk Information
Innsendt av Patrick Mac Manus/Foreningen Oprør

For et år siden blev firmaet Figthers+Lovers dømt. For nylig blev talsmanden for Foreningen Oprør dømt. Efter straffelovens bestemmelser om, at støtte til terrorister ikke er tilladt. Imens deltager Danmark i en krig i Afghanistan, under ledelse af amerikanerne, som blandt andet indebærer, at de udenlandske styrker samarbejder med grupper blandt afghanerne, der i andre sammenhænge ville blive betegnet som terrorister! Er De forvirret? Ikke underligt, for der arbejdes her med to standarder: én for folk, som vil afprøve grænserne for demokratiet og friheden, og en anden for, hvad en stat må gøre, når den udråber sig som repræsentant for demokratiet og friheden.

I øjeblikket forberedes en anden retssag, hvor terrorparagrafferne tages i anvendelse. En ung mand er sigtet for at have overvåget og registreret organiserede nazister.

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