Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
Profits: Louisiana is the World’s Prison Capital
May 14th, 2012Via: Times Picayune: Louisiana is the world’s prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. First among Americans means first in the world. Louisiana’s incarceration rate is nearly triple Iran’s, seven times China’s and 10 times Germany’s. The hidden engine behind the state’s well-oiled prison machine […]
Florida Farm Workers Tell How Drugs, Debt Bind Them in Modern Slavery
May 14th, 2012Via: Tampa Bay Times: LeRoy Smith thought he had hit rock bottom when he found himself trolling Atlanta’s gay district, looking to exchange sex acts for a hot hit off a crack pipe. Then he wound up on a Florida farm near the small town of Hastings, being bilked blind, he says, by a man […]
Forty-Nine Headless Corpses Found Along Highway in Northern Mexico
May 14th, 2012Via: Reuters: Suspected drug gang killers dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway near Mexico’s northern city of Monterrey in one of the country’s worst atrocities in recent years. The mutilated corpses of 43 men and 6 women, whose hands and feet had also been cut off, were found in a pile on a highway […]
Radio Interview: Arnie Gundersen on KGO – Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4
May 13th, 2012Reposted on YouTube:
U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam
May 13th, 2012Via: Wired: The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a “total war” against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists, according to documents obtained by Danger Room. Among the options considered for that conflict: using the lessons of “Hiroshima” to wipe out whole cities at once, targeting […]
Made in China: Capsules Containing Powdered Babies
May 8th, 2012Update: China to Open Inquiry After South Korea Seizes Powdered Human Flesh in Capsules Via: AP: An investigation will be launched into allegations that drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies were being manufactured in China. The official Xinhua News Agency quoted a ministry spokesman as saying an investigation in August found no […]
Footage of Judge Rotenberg Center Torturing a Person with a Disability Aired in Court
May 6th, 2012Via: Fox News Video Reposted on YouTube: Research Credit: ottilie
UC San Diego Student Left Unattended for Five Days in DEA Cell
May 4th, 2012Via: Los Angeles Times: Elected officials are demanding answers after Daniel Chong, a 23-year-old UC San Diego student, was left unattended for five days in a Drug Enforcement Administration detention cell. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) called on U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. asking for an “immediate and thorough” Department of Justice investigation into […]
To Fight Climate Change, UK Funds Forced Sterilisation of India’s Poor
April 30th, 2012Via: Guardian: Tens of millions of pounds of UK aid money have been spent on a programme that has forcibly sterilised Indian women and men, the Observer has learned. Many have died as a result of botched operations, while others have been left bleeding and in agony. A number of pregnant women selected for sterilisation […]
Scientific Fraud: ‘Nobody Had Noticed the Whole Thing Was Rotten’
April 21st, 2012Nobody noticed, eh? Well, my archives go back to 2002, for example, but I don’t count, and thousands of others like me don’t count. The professionally educated ignoramus class heaps scorn on “conspiracy theorists” for outing their crackpot grant swindling and corporate profit cult for what it is, but then, when the rot has gotten […]
