Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
Huge Fish Kill Reported in Plaquemines Parish
September 15th, 2010Look at the photos. Via: Times-Picayune: Plaquemines Parish officials have asked state wildlife officials to investigate what they said is a massive fish kill at Bayou Chaland on the west side of the Mississippi River late Friday. Photographs the parish distributed of the area shows an enormous amount of dead fish floating atop the water. […]
Oil from BP Spill Pooled on Bottom; Oil Found as Far as 70 Miles from Site; Only Bacteria Seen Alive in Samples
September 13th, 2010Via: ABC News: Oil from the BP spill has not been completely cleared, but miles of it is sitting at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a study currently under way. Professor Samantha Joye of the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia, who is conducting a study on a […]
Should the Pope Face Charges for Harbouring Pedophiles?
September 13th, 2010Via: Maclean’s: God in the Dock, meaning God on trial, is a familiar concept in Britain, both from the title of a famous collection of essays by C.S. Lewis and as a general term for skepticism about religious belief and doctrine. But Pope in the Dock? Literally? Perhaps not in our lifetimes, as British lawyer […]
Family to Receive Millions of Dollars in Damages Because Child with Mitochondrial Disease Developed Autism After Receiving Multiple Vaccinations
September 13th, 2010Via: CBS News: The first court award in a vaccine-autism claim is a big one. CBS News has learned the family of Hannah Poling will receive more than $1.5 million dollars for her life care; lost earnings; and pain and suffering for the first year alone. In addition to the first year, the family will […]
Abu Ghraib: “Most of the women in the prison were raped — some of them left prison pregnant.”
September 12th, 2010Via: Independent: Yet nothing comes closer to Titus Andronicus than the insistent, terrible stories of gang rape by United States personnel in Abu Ghraib. You hear this repeatedly in Amman, and a very accurate source of mine in Washington – a man who deals with military personnel – tells me they are true. This, he […]
Belgian Report on Catholic Church Atrocities
September 11th, 2010Via: AP: Hundreds of sex abuse victims have come forward in Belgium with harrowing accounts of molestation by Catholic clergy that reportedly led to at least 13 suicides and affected children as young as two, an independent Belgian commission said Friday. Professor Peter Adriaenssens, chairman of the commission, said the abuse in Belgium may have […]
Obama Wins Right to Invoke “State Secrets” to Protect Bush Crimes
September 9th, 2010Via: Salon: In a 6-5 ruling issued this afternoon, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Obama administration a major victory in its efforts to shield Bush crimes from judicial review, when the court upheld the Obama DOJ’s argument that Bush’s rendition program, used to send victims to be tortured, are “state secrets” and […]
U.S. Soldiers Killed Afghan Civilians for Sport and Collected Fingers as Trophies
September 9th, 2010Obama is out with some Quran-burning-will-help-the-terrorists blather today. In other news… Via: Guardian: Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret “kill team” that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies. Five of the soldiers are charged with murdering three Afghan men who were allegedly killed for […]
Pentagon Declined to Investigate Hundreds of Purchases of Child Pornography
September 4th, 2010Via: Yahoo News: A 2006 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation into the purchase of child pornography online turned up more than 250 civilian and military employees of the Defense Department — including some with the highest available security clearance — who used credit cards or PayPal to purchase images of children in sexual situations. But […]
Elite Paedophile Ring in Portugal
September 3rd, 2010Extensive background: Beyond the Dutroux Affair. Via: Guardian: One of Portugal’s most famous television presenters and a former ambassador to Unesco were among those who abused boys in a paedophile ring involving the country’s state-run orphanages, according to a court verdict released today. The verdict being read out today at a Lisbon court brings to […]
