Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
Israel Accused of War Crimes by Expert Panel
September 24th, 2010“International law is that law which the wicked do not obey and the righteous do not enforce.” —Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat and politician All of Israel’s atrocities are funded by the United States. So, sit back and watch as absolutely nothing results from this. Via: Sydney Morning Herald: A United Nations panel of human rights […]
Court Dismisses Shell Human Rights Abuse Case
September 24th, 2010Via: TCE Today: A US appeals court has dismissed a case against Shell in which it was accused of assisting the Nigerian government to commit human rights abuses in its attempts to suppress local groups protesting against oil activities in the 1990s. In a written ruling, the three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals […]
Gulf Oil Stories
September 22nd, 2010Here are a few stories near the top of Florida Oil Spill Law right now. They just go on, and on and on: “Entire food web at risk” say researchers just back from Gulf: OIL “may be HIDDEN in LARGE MARINE MAMMALS” — “Discolored” zooplankton found Gulf Biologist: “Stunned” if oil product isn’t washing up […]
Pentti Linkola, Finnish Environmentalist: “Kill Defectives”
September 21st, 2010Via: penttilinkola.com “We will have to…learn from the history of revolutionary movements — the national socialists, the Finnish Stalinists, from the many stages of the Russian revolution, from the methods of the Red Brigades — and forget our narcissistic selves.” — “Our only hope lies in strong central government and uncompromizing control of the individual […]
FDA Rules Won’t Require Labeling of Genetically Modified Salmon
September 20th, 2010Via: Washington Post: As the Food and Drug Administration considers whether to approve genetically modified salmon, one thing seems certain: Shoppers staring at fillets in the seafood department will find it tough to pick out the conventional fish from the one created with genes from another species. Despite a growing public demand for more information […]
Absurd Attempt to Prevent People from Seeing BP Oil on Beaches in Florida
September 19th, 2010Antibacterial Soaps Contain Endocrine-Disruptors Capable of Interfering with Hormones Critical for Normal Development and Reproduction
September 18th, 2010Via: Natural Resources Defense Council: The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit today against the Food and Drug Administration for failing to issue a final rule regulating the chemicals triclosan and triclocarban, which are commonly found in antibacterial soaps. These chemicals are suspected endocrine disruptors linked to reproductive and developmental harm in laboratory studies. […]
Timeline of Shame: Decades of DeCoster Egg Factory Violations
September 17th, 2010Via: The Atlantic: Salmonella, mounds of excrement, and hefty citations are nothing new to Jack DeCoster, whose Iowa henhouses were blamed for last month’s nationwide egg recall. DeCoster has done business in Turner, Maine, his hometown, for over 60 years—and has incurred a decades-long list of violations there. DeCoster’s history of legal cases in Maine […]
U.S. Drug Firm Penalized $300 Million for Criminal Actions
September 16th, 2010Via: CBC: A major U.S. drug company, Forest Pharmaceuticals, has agreed to plead guilty to three charges related to selling an unapproved drug, promoting an antidepressant to children and obstructing federal agents. The company is facing fines and criminal penalties of over $300 million. The charges date back more than 10 years when Forest was […]
Big Pharma’s Quackademic ‘Thought Leaders’
September 16th, 2010Via: The Chronicle of Higher Education: Perhaps the most remarkable recent exchange with a KOL emerged in an investigation of Joseph Biederman, a child psychiatrist at Harvard University. In a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson, Biederman was accused of promising positive research results to the company in exchange for funding. A hint of Biederman’s self-opinion […]
