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Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.
John Yoo
Future
Approaches
Member
Civilian
More
Prevent
Attacks
Clear
Armed
Armed Forces
Geneva
Geneva Convention
Forces
Makes
Nonetheless
Permits
Iraqi
Article
Convention
Engaged
Use
Coalition
Coalition Forces
Who
Coercive
Interrogation
While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.
John Yoo
War
Legal
Obey
Protection
Lost
Claim
Responsible
Status
Wearing
Obeying
Laws
Structure
Had
POW
Failing
Taliban
Command
Conduct
Conventions
While
Uniforms
Fighters
Standards
Initial
This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.
John Yoo
Law
Criminal
Prohibited
Criminal Law
Torture
Federal
Still
Condone
Convention
Which
It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.
John Yoo
Innocent
Humane
Daniel
Civilian
Never
Prisoners
Provide
American
Any
Intentions
Anything
Declare
Even
Captured
Al
Pearl
Desire
Treatment
Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.
John Yoo
Holding
Resources
Detention
Facilities
POWs
Without
Territory
Does
Prisoners
Were
Provide
Interested
Even
Captured
Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action.
John Yoo
Future
Action
Our
Launching
Civilian
Only
Preventing
Attacks
Could
Casualties
Massive
Surprise
Goal
Pre-Emptive
Targets
Information
Which
Acquiring
Means
Use
Al
Al-Qaeda
Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.
John Yoo
Death
Legal
Fight
Too Late
Important
Sense
Too
Late
Once
Ourselves
Detect
Prevent
Attacks
Learned
Makes
Terrorist
Occur
Still
Middle
While
Little
Deprive
Means
Sept
Al
Al-Qaeda
American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure.
John Yoo
Fire
Guard
Distant
Soldiers
Battlefield
Secure
Weapons
Inside
More
Outside
Had
Mortar
Making
Prisoners
American
Any
While
Far
American Soldiers
Receiving
Guantanamo
A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages.
John Yoo
Decision
Would
Advantages
Supreme
Supreme Court
Court
Judicial
Judicial Review
Subject
Review
Eliminate
Guantanamo
We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.
Joko Beck
Life
Time
Nature
Looking
Finding
Rather
Misery
Puzzle
Boundless
Answer
Caught
Limitless
Causes
Perplexing
Lot
Contradiction
Begin
Same
Same Time
Being
Which
Us
Aware
To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time, we worry that it probably won't keep on that way.
Joko Beck
Life
Time
Degree
Difficult
Worry
Way
Find
Some
Well
Oppressive
Perplexing
Goes
May
Even
Keep
Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.
Joko Beck
Great
Anxiety
Fear
Too Much
Pain
Nice
Too
Our
Ways
Television
Would
Running
Find
Underneath
Overeat
Surface
Cover
Were
Up
Friendly
Unease
Overwork
Scratch
Anyone
Them
Much
Watch
Below
The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Practice
Live
Meditation
Our
Our Lives
How
Real
Moment
Lives
You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
You
Matter
Organization
Feeling
Universe
Complex
Exactly
Entire
Head
Like
Most
Known
iPhone
Sitting
Getting
Where
Little
Depressed
Might
Really
Your
Apparatus
Exquisite
Right
Here
Need
The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us out of touch with a great deal in life, including our bodies.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Life
Great
Mind
Great Deal
State
Our
Out
Touch
Scattered
Developed
Deal
Leaves
Affairs
Been
Normal
Very
Trained
Us
Bodies
Including
Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
People
Think
Must
Something
Wrong
Feel
Particular
Most
Doing
Then
Should
Special
Meditate
One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Technology
Meditation
Way
Kind
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
One-Way
About
Developed
Over
Know
Look
Been
Years
Traditions
Lot
Connection
When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Work
You
Happy
Will
Too
Early Years
Mindfulness
Later
Those
Tell
Easy
See
About
Parent
Only
Absorb
Miss
Perhaps
Practices
Greatest
How
Years
Being
Children
Them
Realize
Fully
Early
Careful
I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing the world into my own unique way. From that grew the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, which became my karmic assignment.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Science
World
Stress
Own
Way
Ways
Those
Able
Martial
Martial Arts
My Own
Buddhist
Knowing
Became
Practices
Reduction
Discovered
Arts
Grew
Loved
Which
Karmic
Unique
Bridge
Assignment
Program
The 'find it, fix it 'model of medicine doesn't work any more. The U.S. healthcare system is bankrupting the country, bankrolling the insurance companies and exhausting healthcare staff. And despite all that, we are ranked 50th in the world for life expectancy.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Life
Work
World
Country
Medicine
Despite
Ranked
System
Find
Life Expectancy
More
Insurance
Insurance Companies
Healthcare
Exhausting
Fix
Model
Expectancy
Any
Staff
Companies
Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Americans would accept a clinic whose foundation was intensive training in meditative discipline.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Training
Discipline
Before
Meditation
Would
Tried
No Idea
Never
Had
Mainstream
Idea
Accept
Clinic
Been
American
Intensive
Center
Whether
Whose
Foundation
Medical
I'll take transformational change any way it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection. To call what happens 'the placebo effect' is just to give a name to something we don't understand.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Technology
Change
Meditation
Way
Kind
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
One-Way
About
Give
Something
Take
Developed
Over
Name
Know
Look
Call
Understand
Been
Years
Traditions
Effect
Lot
Any
Just
Happens
Placebo
Connection
With the rise of software patents, engineers coding new stuff - whether within a large software company or as kids writing smartphone apps - are exposed to a claim that somewhere a prior patent is being infringed.
Jonathan Zittrain
Writing
Somewhere
Software
Apps
Claim
Kids
Rise
Stuff
New
Within
Prior
New Stuff
Patent
Patents
Being
Whether
Engineers
Large
Exposed
Company
Coding
Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time.
Jonathan Zittrain
Time
Communicate
Accident
Else
Pretty
Network
Through
Global
Historical
Up
Ended
Any
Anybody
Anyone
Anyone Else
Much
When I worry about privacy, I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three arms holding cell phones with cameras in them or video records capturing the event ready to go on the nightly news, if necessary.
Jonathan Zittrain
News
Privacy
Phones
Three
Cell Phones
Holding
Worry
About
Invasion
Records
Fact
Arms
Ready
Go
Cameras
Cell
Any
Anything
Happens
Anytime
Note
Them
Video
Capturing
Event
Necessary
Nightly
I'm interested in helping secure the PC - we need innovation here. It's not just hug your PC, hate the iPhone. In fact I don't even hate the iPhone; I think it's really cool. I just don't want it to be the center of the ecosystem along with the Web 2.0 apps.
Jonathan Zittrain
Innovation
Hate
Hug
Think
Apps
Secure
Web
Fact
Along
Ecosystem
iPhone
Just
In Fact
Want
Center
Interested
Really
Your
Cool
Helping
Even
Here
Need
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