Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
Air Tests from the Louisiana Coast Reveal Human Health Threats from the Oil Disaster
May 17th, 2010Via: Institute for Southern Studies: The media coverage of the BP oil disaster to date has focused largely on the threats to wildlife, but the latest evaluation of air monitoring data shows a serious threat to human health from airborne chemicals emitted by the ongoing deepwater gusher. Today the Louisiana Environmental Action Network released its […]
16X Fewer Federal Safety Inspections on Deepwater Horizon Than Required
May 17th, 2010Via: AP: The federal agency responsible for ensuring that an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was operating safely before it exploded last month fell well short of its own policy that the oil rig be inspected at least once per month, an Associated Press investigation shows. Since January 2005, the federal Minerals Management […]
New York Midwives Lose Right to Deliver Babies at Home
May 16th, 2010Via: New York Times: As residents of the world’s consumer capital, New Yorkers can have anything delivered to their door at any time. They can have their hair cut in the living room, have champagne and caviar rushed to them on a whim, enjoy a shiatsu massage in their own bed or invite a clairvoyant […]
Gulf of Mexico Underwater Oil Plumes 10 Miles Long, 3 Miles Wide and 300 Feet Thick in Spots
May 16th, 2010Via: New York Times: Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots. The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could be substantially worse than estimates […]
U.S. Government Can Execute Its Own Citizens With No Judicial Process And Based On Secret Intelligence
May 15th, 2010What do we learn from the New York Times in the article below? Some legal authorities are deeply uneasy about the U.S. Government’s arbitrary assassination of Americans. That is supposed to soothe us, I think. We can rest assured that someone feels deeply uneasy about the government murdering its own citizens. I don’t know about […]
Inside the Secret Interrogation Facility at Bagram
May 15th, 2010Via: The Atlantic: The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) runs a classified interrogation facility for high-value detainees inside Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, defense and administration officials said, and prisoners there are sometimes subject to tougher interrogation methods than those used elsewhere. Both the New York Times and the BBC reported that prisoners who passed through […]
GULF OIL LEAK MAY BE 14X WORSE THAN OFFICIAL ESTIMATE
May 14th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: U.S. Representative Edward Markey said he is concerned BP Plc’s well in the Gulf of Mexico may be leaking as much as 70,000 barrels of oil a day, compared with previous estimates of 5,000 barrels. Underestimating the spill may hinder efforts to control it, the Massachusetts Democrat said in a statement yesterday. Markey […]
Big Picture Gallery: Disaster Unfolds Slowly in the Gulf of Mexico
May 13th, 2010Via: Boston Globe: In the three weeks since the April 20th explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, and the start of the subsequent massive (and ongoing) oil leak, many attempts have been made to contain and control the scale of the environmental disaster. Oil dispersants are being […]
Swiss Artist Catalogs Mutant Insects Around Nuke Plants
May 12th, 2010Via: Wired: Conventional wisdom holds that nuclear power stations don’t leak enough radiation to create malformed organisms. But in some locations, Hesse-Honegger discovered mutations — curtailed feelers, misshapen legs, asymmetrical wings — in as many as 30 percent of the bugs she gathered. That’s 10 times the overall rate of about 3 percent for insects […]
Journalists Barred from Gitmo for Revealing Already-Public Information
May 10th, 2010Via: Wired: For reporters covering the war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, the ground rules are pretty draconian: As a condition of attending, they have to sign agreements not to disclose anything the court deems secret; media officers review all photos and videos shot on the island; and there sure as hell ain’t no Tweeting […]
