Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
Steve Jobs Proposes Eco Temple Headquarters for Apple as Factory Workers Who Make the Company’s Products Die from Explosions and Suicides
June 8th, 2011Can you believe this guy? Here you go, Steve, read up, I bet your employees are: The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t. Via: NBC: Skip ahead about 2,000 years and think of the ruins of buildings that humans (or otherwise) might experience — much like travelers see the […]
Interview: Arnie Gundersen Talks About Radioactive Dust from Fukushima in Seattle
June 8th, 2011Keep an eye on the situation with reactor 4. Via: Chris Martenson: Arnie Gundersen: Yea, and actually we should extend this to the West Coast, because the same particles there too. To answer your question about Tokyo; what I’m advising people in Tokyo who are there now, is take your shoes off at the door, […]
The Gitmo No One Talks About
June 7th, 2011Via: Salon: President Obama has presided over a threefold increase in the number of detainees being held at the controversial military detention center at Bagram Air Base, the Afghan cousin of the notorious prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. It’s the latest piece of news that almost certainly would be getting more […]
Melted Fuel at Fukushima May Have Leaked Through Pressure Vessels
June 7th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: The melted fuel at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power station may have leaked through the pressure vessels of the Nos. 1 to 3 reactors, the Yomiuri newspaper reported. The Japanese government will submit a report to the International Atomic Energy Agency that raises the possibility the fuel dropped through the […]
Syria Says 120 Forces Dead
June 6th, 2011Via: AP: Armed men attacked Syrian security forces in a tense northern city on Monday, state television said, and 120 policemen and security forces were killed in a region where the army has carried out days of deadly assaults on protesters calling for the end of President Bashar Assad’s rule. Communications were cut to the […]
Children in Care of Irish Government Ended Up Working in Brothels
June 5th, 2011Via: Irish Independent: Children have been going missing from State care and ending up working as sex slaves in brothels for at least three years, leaked US embassy cables reveal. Health Service Executive (HSE) officials made the shocking admission during a private briefing of diplomats from the American Embassy in Dublin. Details of the disclosure […]
Japan: Green Tea Exports Banned Due to High Radiation Levels
June 4th, 2011Via: Telecom: The Japanese government has banned shipments of green tea leaves in four regions after high levels of radioactive caesium were found. A swathe of Japan’s tea making regions including parts of Tochigi, Chiba and Kanagawa prefecture as well as the whole of Ibaraki were included within the ban, according to the Ministry of […]
China: Teenager Sells Kidney for iPad, Laptop Computer
June 3rd, 2011Via: BBC: A teenager in China has sold one of his kidneys in order to buy an iPad 2, Chinese media report. The 17-year-old, identified only as Little Zheng, told a local TV station he had arranged the sale of the kidney over the internet.
Dozens of Child Sex Victims of Belgian Catholic Church Are Launching Legal Action Against Holy See
June 2nd, 2011Via: AFP: DOZENS of victims of a child-sex scandal in the Belgian Catholic Church are launching legal action against the Holy See, the first such suit in Europe. Lawyers and victims said on Wednesday at a news conference that a summons was on its way to Rome, as well as to Belgian bishops, to appear […]
Fukushima Residents Will Be Checked For Internal Radiation Exposure
June 2nd, 2011Via: NHK: Fukushima Prefecture has decided to check the internal radiation exposure of residents near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and adjacent areas with high radiation levels. … A device called a “whole-body counter” will be used to precisely measure radiation. But the prefecture currently has only one device and can screen just […]
