By Stephen Soldz

"...As a further indication of APA's connection to the CIA's torture firm, one of the five "governing people" on the torture firm's Board is former American Psychological Association President, Joseph Matarazzo. The APA is intensely disturbed by President Matarazzo's possible involvement in torture as can be gleamed from these ethically-principled quotes from APA leadership when Matarazzo's involvement was revealed last summer:

Then-APA President Sharon Brehm: "No comment."

APA Director of the Ethics Office and APA point man on torture and interrogations: "No comment."..."

Labels: corruption, torture, truth

"We all know what the world looks like. But a new series of extraordinary maps shows our planet in a very different light.

Rather than defining each country by size, these computer-generated modified maps - or cartograms - redraw the globe with each country's size proportionate to its strengths, or weaknesses, in a whole series of categories.

For instance, when it comes to military spending, the U.S. appears bloated, but Africa is huge when HIV prevalence is mapped.

The cartograms were produced in a unique collaboration between the universities of Michigan in the U.S. and Sheffield. Here are images and more details on some of the most fascinating..."

Labels: maps, reality, truth