Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
TheAntiTerrorist on The Big Business of Being Behind Bars
August 9th, 2010Via: TheAntiTerrorist: Related: Land Of The Free: Never In The Civilized World Have So Many Been Locked Up For So Little
And Now… A Vaccine Against Stress
August 4th, 2010Oh sure. Via: CBS News: Stressed out? There’s no app for that, but soon enough there might be a vaccine. Dr Robert Sapolsky, a neuroscience professor at Stanford, says after 30 years of studying stress, his team might be on the verge of a novel cure. “To be honest, I’m still amazed that it works,” […]
China: Garbage Islands Threaten Three Gorges Dam
August 3rd, 2010Via: Reuters: Thousands of tons of garbage washed down by recent torrential rain are threatening to jam the locks of China’s massive Three Gorges Dam, and is in places so thick people can stand on it, state media said on Monday. Chen Lei, a senior official at the China Three Gorges Corporation, told the China […]
Big Picture Gallery: Cleaning Dalian Harbor
August 1st, 2010* shaking head * Via: Boston Globe – Big Picture: The oil spill resulting from a pipeline explosion in the port city of Dalian on July 16th is being cleaned up by a small army of fisherman, locals, and government workers manning over 250 oil-skimming vessels and 8,000 fishing boats – much of the work […]
UK Government to be Sued Over Congolese ‘Conflict Minerals’
July 30th, 2010In other news: Afghan Mineral Deposits Actually Worth $3 Trillion, Not $1 Trillion. Via: Guardian: Britain must answer in court claims that it is turning a blind eye to UK firms that trade in lucrative Congolese “conflict minerals”, a campaign group announced today. The group, Global Witness, said the firms continued to buy minerals from […]
“Extreme and Unlawful” Bush-Era Policies Becoming the “New Normal” Under Obama
July 30th, 2010Via: ACLU: Indeed, on a range of issues including accountability for torture, detention of terrorism suspects, and use of lethal force against civilians, there is a very real danger that the Obama administration will enshrine permanently within the law policies and practices that were widely considered extreme and unlawful during the Bush administration. There is […]
Land Of The Free: Never In The Civilized World Have So Many Been Locked Up For So Little
July 28th, 2010And not a word about the profit incentive to lock people up! America’s Private Gulag is over a decade old, but worth reading if you’re new to the concept of the prison industrial complex: To be profitable, private prison firms must ensure that prisons are not only built but also filled. Industry experts say a […]
Mexico: Prison Official Sent Inmates to Conduct Birthday Party Massacre
July 27th, 2010Via: Christian Science Monitor: A prison director is suspected of arming inmates and sending them on the July 18 Mexico birthday party massacre that killed 17. To some, Mexico’s drug war seems ‘the script of a science fiction movie.’ When gunmen burst into a private birthday party on July 18 and opened fired on guests, […]
Corexit: “People who work near it are hemorrhaging internally.”
July 26th, 2010Via: Democracy Now: Well, Corexit is one of a number of dispersants, that are toxic, that are used to atomize the oil and force it down the water column so that it’s invisible to the eye. In this case, these dispersants were used in massive quantities, almost two million gallons so far, to hide the […]
Poverty and Hunger in Ohio
July 26th, 2010Television, white bread and Pepsi… Sometimes cigarettes. *shrug shoulders* That guy trying to avoid freezing to death in the basement with his two sons… Man, that segment is going to haunt me for a long time. The show is in multiple parts. If you click through, the links to the next clip are on the […]
