Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
Blair to Receive U.S. Peace Medal
July 1st, 2010Tell me another one. Via: BBC: Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is to receive a prestigious US medal and $100,000 (£67,000) prize for his work in conflict resolution. The National Constitution Centre is awarding him its Liberty Medal for “steadfast” efforts to broker peace in Northern Ireland and the Middle East. Previous winners include […]
Independent Video and Images from Gulf of Mexico Disaster
July 1st, 2010Via: bpslick:
The Insane Overuse of Antibiotics in Industrial Meat Production
June 30th, 2010This is another one for your Captain Obvious file folder. Also, if you’re concerned about issues like this, and try to eat clean food, you might be mentally ill. Have a nice day, and make sure to take your happy pills with your ammonia burger. Via: New York Times: Federal food regulators took a tentative […]
Dumbing Down Society Part I: Foods, Beverages and Meds
June 30th, 2010Via: Vigilant Citizen: Scientific data has been proving for years that governments around the world are tolerating the selling of many products which have a direct and negative effect on cognitive and physical health.
Alex to Become Hurricane as Swells Reach Gulf Spill
June 29th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: As officials and residents in Texas braced for a strike from Tropical Storm Alex’s most ferocious side, energy companies worked to evacuate offshore rigs. The storm, with maximum sustained winds of 70 miles (110 kilometers) per hour, was 355 miles southeast of Brownsville, Texas, heading northwest at 12 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane […]
BP Worker Found Dead of “Natural Causes”
June 29th, 2010Via: nfwdailynews.com: A BP cleanup worker was found dead in his Village Inn room Sunday afternoon. The 48-year-old man’s identity has not been released. “There are no signs of foul play,” said Michele Nicholson, spokeswoman for the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. “I don’t think there was anything suspicious about it.” A spokeswoman at Mobile’s Unified […]
Bill Clinton: Blow Up The Well
June 28th, 2010Via: CNN:
So Far, 400 Have Sought Medical Care After Visits to Escambia County Beaches
June 28th, 2010Via pnj.com: The Escambia County Health Department lifted a health advisory on Pensacola Beach on Friday on the advice of a beach official and against the advice of a federal environmental official. But the advisory was not lifted for Gulf Islands National Seashore’s Fort Pickens beach, immediately west of Pensacola Beach or Johnson Beach on […]
Change: Closing Guantánamo Fades as a Priority
June 26th, 2010Via: New York Times: Stymied by political opposition and focused on competing priorities, the Obama administration has sidelined efforts to close the Guantánamo prison, making it unlikely that President Obama will fulfill his promise to close it before his term ends in 2013. When the White House acknowledged last year that it would miss Mr. […]
“Kill TV” in the “Death Star”
June 26th, 2010Via: New Zealand Herald: They called it the “Death Star” because according to one source who worked inside it, “you could just reach out with a finger and eliminate” somebody. On the walls were television screens, known by the special forces boys as “Kill TV”, where footage from image-intensifier cameras of the enemy being blown […]
