Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
Torture Inc.
August 13th, 2009Via: New York Times: Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen were military retirees and psychologists, on the lookout for business opportunities. They found an excellent customer in the Central Intelligence Agency, where in 2002 they became the architects of the most important interrogation program in the history of American counterterrorism. They had never carried out a […]
Brazil TV Host Turned Politician ‘Ordered Killings to Boost Ratings’
August 12th, 2009Via: Guardian: A Brazilian politician who fronts a popular television crime show is being investigated for allegedly ordering a series of executions in a bid to boost his ratings. Wallace Souza, a former police officer who used his lunchtime television slot to rail against the violence sweeping the jungle city of Manaus, is suspected of […]
Do Americans Need a Health Care Equivalent of Kiwibank?
August 10th, 2009A lot of people are submitting stories about the health care issue that’s boiling over in the U.S. at the moment. As you guys have obviously noticed, I’m not paying attention to most of it because the conventional medical industrial complex is the last place that I would turn for any health related issue; I […]
Criminal Investigation Into CIA Treatment of Detainees Expected
August 9th, 2009Unless Cheney and Bush are prosecuted, this is just another bullshit distraction. Via: Los Angeles Times: U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. is poised to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA abuses committed during the interrogation of terrorism suspects, current and former U.S. government officials said. A senior Justice Department official said […]
Blackwater Mercenaries Had Child Prostitutes on Base in Iraq
August 8th, 2009Video Backup: RawStory Research Credit: ltcolonelnemo
Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder
August 5th, 2009Via: The Nation: A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company’s owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated […]
Squalene: The Swine Flu Vaccine’s Dirty Little Secret Exposed
August 4th, 2009Via: Mercola: Will There Be Immune Adjuvants in Swine Flu Vaccines? The U.S. government has contracts with several drug companies to develop and produce swine flu vaccines. At least two of those companies, Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline, are using an adjuvant in their H1N1 vaccines. The adjuvant? Squalene. According to Meryl Nass, M.D., an authority on […]
U.S. Antidepressant Use Doubled Between 1996 and 2005
August 4th, 2009Must read: Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption. Via: Reuters: Use of antidepressant drugs in the United States doubled between 1996 and 2005, probably because of a mix of factors, researchers reported on Monday. About 6 percent of people were prescribed an antidepressant in 1996 — 13 million people. This rose to more […]
CIA “Ghost Plane” Flight Plans Will Be Made Public
July 29th, 2009Via: Guardian: Confidential documents showing the flight plans of a CIA “ghost plane” allegedly used to transfer a British resident to secret interrogation sites around the world are to be made public. The move comes after a Sussex-based company accused of involvement in extraordinary rendition dropped its opposition to a case against it being heard […]
Government Swine Flu Advisor On Vaccine Maker Payroll
July 27th, 2009Via: Infowars: Many people seem genuinely baffled that western governments are hyping the arrival of a swine flu pandemic as if it’s the greatest threat to humanity since the bubonic plague, despite the relatively low number of deaths from the virus, unaware that the pharmaceutical industry has been intimately joined at the hip with the […]
