Welcome to the best of a left podcast with clips today from the young turtles, democracy

now, counter spin, ring of fire, and the Tom Hartman show.

Be sure to stick around at the very end of the show for a huge announcement I've got for

you.

I didn't want to start with torture and I just think this is tremendous news and of

course I'm afraid that your people are going to gloss over it as usual.

We found out the manual that we were using Guantanamo Bay and then eventually in Iraq

in Abu Ghraib and Afghanistan that led to all the detainee abuse otherwise known as torture.

And it is a 1957 document and it is turns out we have found original source for it.

We thought it was from SER which is our survival evasion, resistance, and escape that we teach

our own soldiers in case they get captured and they're going to get tortured.

Well that is true but it turns out it comes from somewhere else to SER where it comes

from is a Chinese Communist manual on how to torture people.

And we got this in 1957 and turned it into a document on how to survive Chinese torture.

So we forgot its original origins and we didn't went down to Guantanamo.

In fact they took the exact document.

They removed the title which was basically Chinese torture system and they taught it to

the interrogators, to the American interrogators down in Guantanamo Bay and then it spread

like I said to Iraq and Afghanistan.

We have been torturing people with the ways that we were trying to avoid in the first

place from the Communist Chinese, the way that they were torturing people.

And get a load of this, this is a very, very important twist to it.

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