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WORKPLACE psychopaths are common in major businesses and are ruining the lives of their colleagues, an expert has warned. And they are often rewarded for their ruthless behaviour because they appear smart and creative but are really manipulative bullies who steal ideas, according to Sydney-based psychotherapist and author John Clarke.

Tehran, Iran, Oct. 17 – Volunteers for suicide bombing operations will be honoured during a ceremony attended by senior Iranian government officials later this month, the spokesman for the “Headquarters for Commemoration of Martyrs of Global Islamic Movement” said on Sunday. The gathering which will take place in Tehran on October 30 has been entitled “Men of the Sun”, Mohammad-Ali Samadi announced in an interview with the state-owned Mehr news agency. Samadi said that forms would be provided to attendees to volunteer for suicide operations, adding, “Until now, 40,000 people have signed up for martyrdom-seeking operations and three battalions of...

BALI, Indonesia (AP) - Terrorists targeted the Indonesian tropical resort of Bali for the second time in three years Saturday with coordinated bombings that devastated seafood and noodle restaurants packed with foreigners, killing at least 25 people and wounding at least 100. The blasts came a month after Indonesia's president warned of possible terrorist attacks. Two Americans were among the wounded. Saturday's near-simultaneous blasts at two seafood cafes on Jimbaran beach and a three-story noodle and steakhouse in downtown Kuta occurred almost three years to the day that bombings blamed on Islamic militants killed 202 people, mostly foreigners in Bali....

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Roligt og metodisk skræver storebroderen over sin lillesøster, mens han skyder det ene projektil efter det andet ind i hende. Hendes ægtemand er ramt af flere skud i maven og kan blot se hjælpeløst til, mens hans kone henrettes af sin egen familie. (rough translation) Calm and methodically big brother stoops over his little sister while shooting one projectile after the other into her. Her spouse, affected by several shots to the abdomen, can only look on helplessly, while his wife is executed by her own family.

Hamas flags, paintings of Arab terrorists and praise for “martyrs” who murdered Jews have replaced paintings of flowers covering the walls of public buildings in the former Gush Katif communities. Arabs are trying to erase the memory of Jewish presence in the Gaza region. "We wanted to make what was unacceptable look nice and acceptable," artist Taha Abu Ghali told Reuters News Agency. The most popular pictures splashed on the walls of former community buildings are those of armed terrorists, similar to the inciting pictures and graffiti that cover walls throughout Gaza City and Khan Yunis. One mural painted by...

Riyadh - Paper cups made in Israel have caused a storm of protest in a Saudi hospital, the Saudi newspaper Arab News reports. Officials at the King Khaled National Guard Hospital says they are investigating after the catering subcontractors for the coffee shops in the hospital ran out and began using Israeli paper cups with Hebrew writing on them, sparking outrage among the customers. Hospital executive director, Saleh Al-Mazroi, said the matter had been referred to the authorities in Riyadh and action would be taken. The manager and owner of the catering company, Ibrahim Al-Musbah, told Arab News that the...

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BAGHDAD -- Baghdadis headed to the barbershop are going more often to the Shia neighborhood of Sadr City than mixed neighborhoods where they could be shot by Sunni radicals who charge that clean shaven men want to look like US soldiers. "I have customers coming from far away" said Ali Habin, who was happy to see his barbershop packed with customers. "Young men are coming from remote neighborhoods like Shaab and Ur where there have been attacks targeting barbershops." Northwestern Sadr City is solidly Shia and even Sunni insurgents do not dare venture there. All Muslim clerics, including Shia spiritual...

RESEARCHERS at the Institute of Psychiatry, in London, are not shy about tackling controversial topics. One of them, Terrie Moffitt, was responsible for studies that showed how different versions of the gene for one of the brain's enzymes resulted in different predispositions to criminal activity. Another, Robert Plomin, found the first plausible candidate for a gene that boosts intelligence. Now, Dr Moffitt and Dr Plomin have been helping two other researchers, Essi Viding and James Blair, with an equally high-profile study—one which asks whether psychopaths are born that way, or are made so by their upbringings. That, of course, is...

Newsweek magazine published a scoop last week. Based on an unnamed source, Newsweek informed the world that American interrogators of suspected Islamic terrorists at Guantanamo Bay had flushed pages of the Koran down a toilet. If this were true, the interrogators would be both morally wrong and stupid. The words of the Koran and the pages on which they are written are considered intrinsically holy to Muslims. As it happens, it was not true. Like Dan Rather and CBS News, Newsweek put politics and craving a scoop ahead of truth, not to mention ahead of America's security. As I said...

For those who didn't have the pleasure of spending dsome time with the Democrats over at the DU tonight I've posted three comments that you may find interesting. There were tons that I could have selected but these captured the essence of their message boards tonight. The pathology is amazing. Our resident shrinks will probably have a field day with these. :^) I hope the mods don't mind this post. I just thought the "enemy's" comments were very insightful.

THE final words of a terrified wife seconds before she was shot dead by her millionaire husband were revealed at an inquest yesterday. Trembling Julia Pemberton, 47, dialled 999 as she hid from rampaging financier Alan in a storeroom at the family house. He had already blasted their son William, 17, to death and was closing in on Julia as she desperately tried to summon help from an emergency operator. The wife, who had suffered years of abuse from Pemberton, said: “He has killed my son.” She added: “Oh God, I have about one minute before I die. I can...

Is your boss a \'snake in a suit\' or just an ordinary psycho? Wed Aug 25,11:17 AM ET Add Health - AFP to My Yahoo! STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Is your boss a charming, well-educated and polished leader intent on climbing the career ladder? If so, he could be a psychopath, psychologists gathered in Stockholm said. Recent research has shown that not all psychopaths are violent killers -- many of them hold normal jobs, with some rising to the highest levels of executive management. But their charisma and ambition are often mistaken for leadership traits rather than psychopathic ones, industrial-organisation psychologist...

Kubrick's Psychopaths Society and Human Nature in the Films of Stanley Kubrick © 1990 by Gordon Banks Introduction To the creator of films as well as other forms of literature, the dark side of human nature has often proved more rich and interesting than the bright. Films and books on the lives of saints have not been as popular as murder mysteries and works of horror. While we may have no desire to experience them in our own lives, terrible deeds and evil people exert their perverse attraction on our psyches. We who consider ourselves moral and upright are...

Monday, May 10, 2004 Edwards slams abuse at Democrats' dinner By Gregory Korte The Cincinnati Enquirer COLUMBUS - The only way to send a message to the rest of the world that Americans emphatically reject the humiliating abuse of Iraqi prisoners is to elect John F. Kerry as president, Sen. John Edwards told Ohio Democrats at their annual dinner. "All of us - it goes without saying - condemn it. It goes against the values we hold as Americans. Just think about the damage it's doing to our image around the world," Edwards said Saturday night, adding that the prisoner...

Don't Throw Away Liberty Probably one of the most chilling statements ever made by a tyrant was Caligula's warning: "Remember, I can do anything to anybody." Few tyrants have ever had such total power. Even in Caligula's case, he wielded such power for a relatively short time before he was killed. The only tyrants in our time who could have made such a statement were Joe Stalin and his admiring fan, Saddam Hussein. In both cases, they literally could do anything to anybody, provided, of course, they could get their hands on them. Stalin was by far the greater monster,...