Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
Senators and TSA Defend “Love Pats” at Airports
November 18th, 2010It’s sexual assault. It’s state sponsored sexual assault. See: TSA – Sexual Assault. Via: CBS News: “I’m wildly excited that I can walk through a machine instead of getting my dose of love pats,” Sen. McCaskill said.
Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S.
November 15th, 2010Not news, but… Via: New York Times: A secret history of the United States government’s Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a “safe haven” in the United States for Nazis and their collaborators after World War II, and it details decades of clashes, often hidden, with other nations over war criminals here and […]
Multiple Independent Lab Tests Confirm Oil in Gulf Shrimp
November 10th, 2010Via: Raw Story: The federal government is going out of its way to assure the public that seafood pulled from recently reopened Gulf of Mexico waters is safe to consume, in spite of the largest accidental release of crude oil in America’s history. However, testing methodologies used by the government to deem areas of water […]
No Charges for CIA Tape Destruction
November 10th, 2010Via: Reuters: No CIA personnel will face criminal charges for destroying videotapes of harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. While the decision will spare the CIA and the Obama administration the potential backlash and embarrassment that a trial could have generated, another federal probe continues into possible abuse of […]
A Tale of Two Ghettoes
November 3rd, 2010Via: National Post: Why is Shoppers Drug Mart pulling 3,500 copies of Adbusters, my magazine, off its shelves? A week ago, in the National Post, the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) accused Adbusters of anti-Semitism for publishing side-by-side photographs of the Gaza and Warsaw ghettos ( “Anti-Semitism on your magazine rack — courtesy of Adbusters,” Oct. […]
Back to the Scene of the Crime: A Return to Jekyll Island: The Origins, History, and Future of the Federal Reserve
November 2nd, 2010See: The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin. Via: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: This special conference marks the centenary of the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting that resulted in draft legislation for the creation of a U.S. central bank. Parts of this draft (the Aldrich plan) were incorporated into the 1913 Federal Reserve […]
Halliburton Knew Cement it Mixed for BP’s Well Was Unstable
October 29th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: Halliburton Co. may face increased liability in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill after the staff of a U.S. presidential panel said the contractor knew cement it mixed for BP Plc’s well was unstable. The staff of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill said documents provided by Halliburton showed […]
And Now… Cheap Fluoride from China Leaves Unknown, Insoluble Residue in Municipal Water Systems
October 29th, 2010Update: Multiple Tests Can’t Determine What The Material Is? Via: The Daily News (Newburyport) on Fluoride Action Network: Desmarais said while soluble sodium fluoride has traditionally proved easy to dissolve and add to the water supply, in recent years he’s found that 40 percent of the product they’ve been buying will not dissolve, and he […]
Humiliate, Strip, Threaten: UK Military Interrogation Manuals Discovered
October 27th, 2010Via: Guardian: The British military has been training interrogators in techniques that include threats, sensory deprivation and enforced nakedness in an apparent breach of the Geneva conventions, the Guardian has discovered. Training materials drawn up secretly in recent years tell interrogators they should aim to provoke humiliation, insecurity, disorientation, exhaustion, anxiety and fear in the […]
Efforts to Prosecute Blackwater Are Collapsing
October 21st, 2010Via: New York Times: Nearly four years after the federal government began a string of investigations and criminal prosecutions against Blackwater Worldwide personnel accused of murder and other violent crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, the cases are beginning to fall apart, burdened by a legal obstacle of the government’s own making. Just a Couple of […]
