Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
Royal Navy Flotilla Withdrawn to Cut Costs, Weeks Before Haiti Disaster; First Gap in Cover in Caribbean Since 17th Century
January 21st, 2010See: PENTAGON DISASTER RELIEF EXERCISE FOR HAITI WENT LIVE AFTER EARTHQUAKE HIT Via: Times Online: A Royal Navy flotilla that might have provided relief in the first hours after the Haitian earthquake was withdrawn weeks before the disaster because of budget constraints, the Ministry of Defence said last night. Naval sources told The Times that […]
The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta Sergeant Blows the Whistle
January 21st, 2010There’s a black site at Guantánamo where people have been tortured to death. Via: Harper’s: Late on the evening of June 9 that year, three prisoners at Guantánamo died suddenly and violently. Salah Ahmed Al-Salami, from Yemen, was thirty-seven. Mani Shaman Al-Utaybi, from Saudi Arabia, was thirty. Yasser Talal Al-Zahrani, also from Saudi Arabia, was […]
PENTAGON DISASTER RELIEF EXERCISE FOR HAITI WENT LIVE AFTER EARTHQUAKE HIT
January 20th, 2010Via: NextGov: As personnel representing hundreds of government and nongovernment agencies from around the world rush to the aid of earthquake-devastated Haiti, the Defense Information Systems Agency has launched a Web portal with multiple social networking tools to aid in coordinating their efforts. On Monday, Jean Demay, DISA’s technical manager for the agency’s Transnational Information […]
Haiti: Dubya and Clinton to the Rescue?
January 19th, 2010George W. Obama
January 17th, 2010Via: Village Voice: Before President Obama, it was grimly accurate to write, as I often did in the Voice, that George W. Bush came into the presidency with no discernible background in constitutional civil liberties or any acquaintance with the Constitution itself. Accordingly, he turned the “war on terror” over to Dick Cheney and Donald […]
What Happened to the Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics (isgp.eu)
January 17th, 2010Update: Apparently, the Site Was Taken Down Because of a Address Chance isgp.eu: January 18, 2010, To those who were concerned, As many of you noticed, ISGP has been down for a week. Eurid, located in Brussels, had withdrawn the domain because they somehow found out I wasn’t living at the registered address anymore. Don’t […]
Monsanto’s GM Corn Damages Organs: A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health
January 13th, 2010Via: International Journal of Biological Sciences: We present for the first time a comparative analysis of blood and organ system data from trials with rats fed three main commercialized genetically modified (GM) maize (NK 603, MON 810, MON 863), which are present in food and feed in the world. NK 603 has been modified to […]
Israeli Military Robots
January 12th, 2010Via: Wall Street Journal: Israel is developing an army of robotic fighting machines that offers a window onto the potential future of warfare. Sixty years of near-constant war, a low tolerance for enduring casualties in conflict, and its high-tech industry have long made Israel one of the world’s leading innovators of military robotics. “We’re trying […]
Two Former Blackwater Guards Charged with Murder
January 8th, 2010Via: BBC: Two US men have been charged over the murder of two Afghans after a traffic accident in Kabul last May. Justin Cannon, 27, and Chris Drotleff, 29, worked for a subsidiary of security firm Xe, formerly known as Blackwater. The men were sacked after the incident for failing to comply with the terms […]
Wal-Mart and H&M Destroy Brand New, Unsold Clothes
January 8th, 2010Add up all the sorrow, hard work and resources that went into producing those goods… Straight to the landfill. Wal-Mart apparently uses a machine to destroy the clothes. How very American is that? Did someone get rich designing and building the machines that Wal Mart uses to destroy brand new clothes before they are thrown […]
