Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
The Runaway General
June 26th, 2010This is a decent article, but I’m not sure what to take away from it. I was reading the article mainly to see what all the fuss was about; the dramatic summoning of McChrystal to the White House, the resignation, the media obsessed with talk of insubordination, etc. The comments that were critical of the […]
Oil Spill: The Situation Off Bon Secour
June 21st, 2010Via: Press Register:
Power of the Purse Volume 1
June 21st, 2010Lee Rogers of roguegovernment.com and the Live Free or Die radio show sent me a copy of his new documentary film, Power of the Purse Volume 1. It’s almost five hours of fiat currency Hell, including a dog leg into the 9/11 spectacle. I was particularly interested in the portions of the film that dealt […]
North Korea Lifts Restrictions on Private Markets as Last Resort in Food Crisis
June 20th, 2010Centralized agriculture will result in famine. Whether it’s Dear Leader or Monsanto, it’s doomed. Call it communism (which results in statist plutocracy) or capitalism (which results in corporate plutocracy), it doesn’t matter. Fascism is fascism, regardless of the mask it happens to be wearing. To understand the effects of statist plutocracy on your belly, see: […]
Coast Guard Authorized to Burn Oil Off Florida, Health Notification Issued
June 19th, 2010“Don’t panic.” —The Management Via: NFW Daily News: The Florida Department of Environmental Protection authorized the Coast Guard to burn oil offshore, and the county is warning people of potential health issues. Particulate matter, an airborne mix of very small particles and liquid droplets, may reach the shore, according to an Okaloosa County Health Department […]
Damaged Well Billowing Methane Into Gulf of Mexico
June 18th, 2010Maybe this one deserves a re-read: Detonating Nuclear Bomb at BP Oil Spill Site… Might Produce a Bad Result. Via: AP: It is an overlooked danger in oil spill crisis: The crude gushing from the well contains vast amounts of natural gas that could pose a serious threat to the Gulf of Mexico’s fragile ecosystem. […]
Cracks Show BP Battled Well Two Months Before Blast
June 18th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: BP Plc was struggling to seal cracks in its Macondo well as far back as February, more than two months before an explosion killed 11 and spewed oil into the Gulf of Mexico. It took 10 days to plug the first cracks, according to reports BP filed with the Minerals Management Service that […]
Around 300,000 People Displaced Inside Kyrgyzstan
June 17th, 2010Via: CNN: About 300,000 people are now estimated to be internally displaced in Kyrgyzstan by ethnic violence, the U.N. refugee agency said Thursday, citing information from the Kyrgyz interim government and non-governmental organizations. Families and host communities were sheltering many of them, but at least 40,000 people were in need of shelter, according to the […]
The U.S. Wins the Right to Abduct Innocent People with Impunity
June 15th, 2010Via: Salon: The Supreme Court today denied a petition of review from Maher Arar, the Canadian and Syrian citizen who was abducted by the U.S. Government at a stopover at JFK Airport when returning to Canada in 2002, held incommunicado for two weeks, and then rendered to Syria, where he spent the next 10 months […]
Americans Get the Most Medical Radiation in the World
June 15th, 2010Via: AP: We fret about airport scanners, power lines, cell phones and even microwaves. It’s true that we get too much radiation. But it’s not from those sources — it’s from too many medical tests. Americans get the most medical radiation in the world, even more than folks in other rich countries. The U.S. accounts […]
