JadedWolf

Interrogation at Guantanamo was left to untrained amateurs, and yielded no useful information, if we are to believe an ex-FBI agent that was interviewed by der Spiegel. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/former-fbi-official-ali-soufan-condemns-guantanamo-torture-a-1014475.html Without drawing conclusions from it, I found it a worthwhile interview to read.

Yeah, you know, some posts -like the one you are mentioning here- make me wish there was, next to a like post button, a dislike post button. I would like to think that particular post would receive a record dislikes from the posters here.

Never heard of the guy, but I assume all Molyneuxes are notorious liars then? We Europeans already long know what the issue is. But apparently the Americans are still wondering why there's this issue in their country... and refuse to listen too. :/ Hmm, I'm European -or rather, I am from a country in Europe, the idea that all Europeans are the same is somewhat laughable-, and I can't recall being asked. That particular survey must've slipped my notice. Just for the record, what IS the issue? I'd like to know what I'm supposed to be knowing for a very long time, thanks.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Went over and backed it. No idea how I could have missed it.

Make Youtube videos? I don't suppose you have a cat, do you?

You slept through the whole Northern-Ireland thing then? And that's just in Europe. In Africa and Asia there are plenty of examples to find of Christian terrorist groups. Sure, they don't have the impact that Islamic terrorists have, but they do exist. Here's a nice start to begin looking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism Not to dig at religion, though. I have never quite understood it, but I suppose everyone needs an imaginary friend every now and then, and if they find their comfort that way who am I to judge. People will always find excuses to kill each other anyway. if it isn't religion, they'll think of something else.

Sometimes I think we should just barge into parliament naked while they were discussing yet another scheme to slowly erode our privacy. They wanted to know everything about us? Well, they can. Have fun. Perhaps we should embrace this as a new sort of freedom. Since we can't keep secrets anymore, why not share? Tell all your co-workers about your foot fetish, let the neighbours know you like to wear a pink tutu during the weekends, finally admit to your wife that you're bi-curious. After all people, you have nothing to hide, right?

Why who does profit from this ? And please don't say that the USA is behind the rise of Islamic extremism so they can money from it It's the lizardmen from Mars. Tjeez. Get with the program. To Neifirst: don't take the posters here too seriously, it's bad for your blood pressure.

Indeed, everyone knows the evil West is behind everything. And with everyone, I mean everyone who watches Russia Today.

Not the most pleasant version of that song I've heard from them. Maybe not :D But I love the way they perform it. And the last bit between them and the presenter. "Do they have a lot of other nice songs, the four lads?" "No, that's their only good song." Plus, it's from an era when MTV (at least in Europe) was still half a decent music channel so there's some nostalgia involved.

Hi Jaded " waves " Where have you been? I was worried you had joined the Ukrainian army and you were involved in the conflict in eastern Ukraine !!! Not much chance of that. I would make a terrible soldier. I'm a lover, not a fighter.

In other news, an ultra-orthodox Israeli newspaper edited out all female politicians including Merkel from the iconic photo of the Paris march. You can't make this stuff up. https://twitter.com/uriahc/status/554657664316104705/photo/1

That has to be scripted, right? He is taking the role of stooge to set up her joke. If not, that would be something she could have lost her job over.

I wonder what the reason is for him being listed as a Scottish computer game developer... I guess the name threw them off. Fun imagining him in a kilt though...

Why would I limit myself specifically to the Netherlands? The world is a larger place . Regardless, the point is that if something like this can happen once, it can happen again. And just because I'm not an arab or muslim doesn't mean it doesn't worry me that next time a group could be targetted that I might be a part of. Or perhaps I shouldn't worry about such things because I am white. Is that this white privilege you keep talking about? Sorry, rather a cheap shot but sometimes your way of thinking just really is rather exasperating. Your moral compass seems to be quite strong, but I can't help but think it needs some serious calibrating.

Bruce, I have no doubt there were some very bad people among these people, but it seems to me they haven't exactly used a finetooth comb when they decided who to pick up. "Innocent until proven guilty" has in this case been turned completely on its head to "guilty until we torture you enough that we believe you might be innocent". You may be fine with that, but I can assure you that you won't like the sort of future that line of thinking leads to.

Things like this really make me quite pessimistic about the future. What kind of world are we heading to? The Geneva convention just seems like a dead letter at this point. We are perfectly willing to allow our governments to hold people without them even being formally accused of anything, and to torture them in all sorts of horrible ways. And after a few years a report comes out and all they can do is say "Well, yes, we did make some mistakes in our zeal to persue these horrible terrorists, but let's be honest who can really blame us, and look, aren't we wonderful that we are actually being honest about this?" It seems that all these rogue states that we condemn are just not blessed with the right spindoctors. Maybe if you are some Middle-Eastern dictator what you should do is just say "Yes, we did make some mistakes using that mustard gas against our own population in our zeal to persue those horrible terrorists, but we were in rather a bend at the time, and aren't we really wonderful to being completely honest about this and writing a nice lenghty report about how we regret this?"

I'm still in favour of penguins as heads of state. They're cheap, adorable and charismatic. Just let a penguin waddle in as your head of state and they will be pratically begging you for trade agreements.

And my question to you is who you'd rather have at the apex of the legal pyramid. A career liar? A sociopath who wants to kill people who wear glasses for asking too many questions? A penguin. Who could go wrong with a penguin?

Have you tried something like https://justgetflux.com/ ? You can set it to dim the blue lights at night. By the way, this thread always makes me think of... What I did today? Why, tried to take over the world, of course...

I'd rather discuss penguins, to be honest. Aren't they awesome?