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Neil Entwistle: Psychopath
Harrison Koehli
sott.net Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:55 EDT
You've probably heard the story, or at least one like it. Husband kills wife and child, seemingly without remorse, then attempts to pass it off as a murder/suicide. And, remarkably, people believe him. The latest such example is Neil Entwistle, a British computer programmer, who murdered his American wife and 9-month-old daughter in 2006. He was recently sentenced to life in prison. The trial made for a fascinating and disturbing spectacle. Aptly described by jurors as a complete narcissist, Entwistle put on quite the display during the presentation of a video of the bloody crime scene. But before we see his reaction for ourselves, let's see what the media tells us we see. |
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Tunguska, Psychopathy and the Sixth Extinction
Laura Knight-Jadczyk
SOTT.net Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:33 EDT
One hundred years ago today, on the night of 30 June and 1 July, one of the most extraordinary events in modern history occurred.
None of the people witnessing this strange phenomenon had any idea that, in the central Siberian plateau, just after 7:15 a.m. local time, the planet had been hit by a cometary impactor that exploded - as most such impactors do - in the atmosphere just above the Earth's surface. |
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Signs Economic Commentary for 30 June 2008
Donald Hunt
SOTT.net Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:06 EDT
With energy and food prices rising rapidly, average people feel the crisis in their gut. But should we be so pessimistic? Maybe a change in perspective will help us. A couple of weeks ago we quoted Ran Prieur who said that we should think of "corporate rule" when we hear the term "the economy." We should interpret "expansion" as a "contraction." So if we hear that the economy is crashing, can we think that really the rule of psychopathic corporations is crashing? |
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Believe Me, It's Torture
Christopher Hitchens
Vanity Fair Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:26 EDT What more can be added to the debate over U.S. interrogation methods, and whether waterboarding is torture? Try firsthand experience. The author undergoes the controversial drowning technique, at the hands of men who once trained American soldiers to resist - not inflict - it.
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The Unburdened Mind of the Psychopath
Christopher S. Putnam
Damn Interesting Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:50 EST
In the public imagination, a "psychopath" is a violent serial killer or an over-the-top movie villain, as one sometimes might suspect Frank to be. He is highly impulsive and has a callous disregard for the well-being of others that can be disquieting. But he is just as likely to be a next-door neighbor, a doctor, or an actor on TV - essentially no different from anyone else who holds these roles, except that Frank lacks the nagging little voice which so profoundly influences most of our lives. Frank has no conscience. And as much as we would like to think that people like him are a rare aberration, safely locked away, the truth is that they are more common than most would ever guess. |
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Averting our gaze from a psychopathic state
Linda McQuaig
The Smirking Chimp Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:09 EDT
Does the president of the United States have the right to order a detainee buried alive? Oddly, this grotesque question was posed at a U.S. Congressional hearing last week. Even odder was the answer - from John Yoo, former deputy assistant attorney general in the Bush administration, now a law professor at the University of California. "I don't think that I've ever given the advice that the president could bury somebody alive," Yoo told a judiciary subcommittee hearing into detainee interrogations. Well, I guess that's comforting to know. But it was striking to watch Yoo evade answering whether he considered there was any treatment so vicious and inhuman that it would be beyond the president's power to inflict it on a detainee, in the interests of national defence. Apparently there isn't. In a public debate in 2005, Yoo was asked if he thought it would be lawful for the president to authorize crushing the testicles of a detainee's child. It would seem like a simple "no" would suffice. But here's how Yoo responded: "I think it depends on why the president thinks he needs to do that." |
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