Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
North Dakota Finds More Radioactive Oil Waste
April 24th, 2014Via: AP: North Dakota confirmed Thursday the discovery of a new radioactive dump of waste from oil drilling, and separately a company hired to clean up waste found in February at another location said it removed double the amount of radioactive material originally estimated to be there. The Canadian company hired to clean up the […]
The Ticking Time-Bomb at the Bottom of the Baltic Sea
April 21st, 2014Via: The Economist: THERE IS something dangerous lurking in the shallow waters of the Baltic Sea. Nearly 70 years after the victorious Allies dumped thousands of tonnes of Nazi chemical weapons and chemical agents into the Baltic Sea, experts have warned of an environmental disaster as the weapons corrode and their deadly contents spill into […]
Documentary Film Will Expose Hollywood Pedophile Rings
April 18th, 2014Via: Daily Mail: The man accusing X Men director Bryan Singer of sex abuse has teamed up with an Oscar-nominated filmmaker for a bombshell documentary that threatens to expose the sordid underbelly of Hollywood. Michael Egan, who claims he was raped by Singer at a string of Hollywood pool parties as a teenager, has been […]
Medicated to Death: SSRIs and Mass Killings
April 18th, 2014Via: The Corbett Report:
The Killer Klansman’s Missing Years as a Federal Informant
April 18th, 2014Via: Daily Beast: White supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller, arrested in three killings Sunday, turned white opportunist when facing decades in prison, testifying against his fellow haters in two trials. A quarter-century before he was charged with Sunday’s three hate murders outside Kansas City, Frazier Glenn Miller figured prominently in a triple hate homicide in North […]
Blackwater Guards Finally to be Tried for Killing 14 Iraqi Civilians
April 16th, 2014Via: AllGov: One of the darkest episodes during the U.S. occupation of Iraq last decade is finally resulting in the prosecution of private American security guards who killed more than a dozen Iraqi civilians in a single incident. The name Blackwater became famous after the 2007 event in which guards from the security firm’s Raven […]
America’s Coup Machine: Destroying Democracy Since 1953
April 16th, 2014Via: AlterNet: Soon after the 2004 U.S. coup to depose President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti, I heard Aristide’s lawyer Ira Kurzban speaking in Miami. He began his talk with a riddle: “Why has there never been a coup in Washington D.C.?” The answer: “Because there is no U.S. Embassy in Washington D.C.” This introduction was […]
Young Children Experiencing Developmental Problems Related to Use of Mobile Devices
April 15th, 2014Via: Telegraph: Rising numbers of infants lack the motor skills needed to play with building blocks because of an “addiction” to tablet computers and smartphones, according to teachers. Many children aged just three or four can “swipe a screen” but have little or no dexterity in their fingers after spending hours glued to iPads, it […]
Takeda, Lilly Jury Awards $9 Billion Over Actos Cancer Risks
April 9th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and Eli Lilly & Co. were ordered to pay a combined $9 billion in punitive damages after a federal court jury found they hid the cancer risks of their Actos diabetes medicine in the first U.S. trial of its kind.
Leaders of Teaching Hospitals Have Close Ties to Drug Companies
April 3rd, 2014Via: ProPublica: Pharmaceutical company payments to doctors extend far beyond rank-and-file clinicians — and deep into the leadership of America’s teaching hospitals, according to a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. A team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center examined the boards of the 50 largest drug […]
