because the military itself knows about interrogations and that s the way they should have probably taken this program over in the first place. so the washington post is reporting mitchell seized on a controversial concept known as learned helplessness. the idea that a prisoner could be reduced through dehumanizing treatment to utter dependency on his captors. one of the ideas to achieve that, that the cia eventually rejected, was mock burials. does this kind of stuff work? carol, this is just psychological mumbo-jumbo. it doesn t work. you know, the cia has looked in on interrogations, hostile interrogations over the years in the middle east, south america and they general ly don t work, waterboarding doesn t work. breaking somebody down doesn t work. they tend to give false leads and it s not helpful at all, really. and i think yesterday with
angry state, like this. i don t know, think that s driving a lot of. this. i think it s both. it s it whipping people up with the hateful rhetoric. and telling them if you have an opinion, that makes you a bad person. i don t know about that. no,. wait, wait. i think we have lost a certain decorum. certain empathy to stand in the shoes of the person we are screaming at. there is a lot of hateful screaming going on from both sides and i think it also makes us feel kind of helpless and hopeless. no one can come to any agreement. it s like if you are in a family and your parents are arguing all the time, and you can t come to them and say look, this isn t working out for me i need to get something done, sit down with me and help me fix things. they are screaming disfunction nally. what does that do to a human being when they hear it and they see it, it makes them depressed? it makes them. what do they do. makes them feel hopeless and kind of impotent. there is a phenomenon c
angry state, like this. i don t know, think that s driving a lot of. this. i think it s both. it s it whipping people up with the hateful rhetoric. and telling them if you have an opinion, that makes you a bad person. i don t know about that. no,. wait, wait. i think we have lost a certain decorum. certain empathy to stand in the shoes of the person we are screaming at. there is a lot of hateful screaming going on from both sides and i think it also makes us feel kind of helpless and hopeless. no one can come to any agreement. it s like if you are in a family and your parents are arguing all the time, and you can t come to them and say look, this isn t working out for me i need to get something done, sit down with me and help me fix things. they are screaming disfunction nally. what does that do to a human being when they hear it and they see it, it makes them depressed? it makes them. what do they do. makes them feel hopeless and kind of impotent. there is a phenomenon c
wraps it around my neck. he sits me down on the floor and he says this is where you re going to stay until i can trust you. now if i do it too tight and you don t make it, that means you wasn t meant to stay here that means god wanted to take you. so he proceeded to put it on my neck, and then he tied it around my stomach, and he took my hands and bound it behind me, and he took a motorcycle helmet and he put it over my face to where i couldn t breathe at all and later on, i didn t remember a thing because i had passed out. was there ever a point that she sort of resigned herself to the idea she could be held by this man for the rest of her life? i think she never gave up hope, but of course, when days turn into weeks which turn into months which turn into years, then you begin to get into what i would term as a learned
america is becoming an entitlement nation. look at these stats. a census report shows in 2011, more than 49% of americans received some sort of assistance from the government. in fact, the united states has spent $3.7 trillion on welfare programs over the last five years. do numbers like this suggest that america is on the road towards socialism? let s ask arthur brooks, president of the american enterprise institute. what s so different about those numbers, arthur? look, those numbers are rising. they ve been rising all the way through the recession, all the way through the crisis. the problem is that these numbers always tend to rise and never tend to fall. so we re going to come off the cliff, people are going to start going back to work, we hope. the trouble is we re not going to have people coming off these unearned entitlement benefits and that changes our nation permanently. in what way? well, what s happened in europe basically is that we ve created an entire class of peo