Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
London’s Metropolitan Police Accused of Waterboarding Suspects
June 10th, 2009Via: Times Online: Metropolitan Police officers subjected suspects to waterboarding, according to allegations at the centre of a major anti-corruption inquiry, The Times has learnt. The torture claims are part of a wide-ranging investigation which also includes accusations that officers fabricated evidence and stole suspects’ property. It has already led to the abandonment of a […]
Royal Dutch Shell to Pay Pocket Lint in Settlement Over Deaths of Activists
June 9th, 2009Via: Wall Street Journal: Royal Dutch Shell PLC agreed Monday to pay $15.5 million to settle a lawsuit over the 1995 deaths of Nigerian author and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and others. The Anglo-Dutch oil giant faced a lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan under the Alien Tort Claims Act, on allegations that it was complicit […]
Soy’s Negative Effects: Is This the Most Dangerous Food for Men?
June 7th, 2009The fact that soy based foods are routinely fed to infants and prisoners, groups of people who have no choice in what they are being fed, amounts to an atrocity. Check out what I call the ‘soy apocalypse gateway’ at the Weston A Price Foundation for more information. Via: Men’s Health: The unassuming soybean has […]
Obama Regime Wants to Allow Detainees Charged with Capital Offences to Plead Guilty, Which Would Result in the Detainees Being Executed Without Trials
June 6th, 2009Via: New York Times: The Obama administration is considering a change in the law for the military commissions at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that would clear the way for detainees facing the death penalty to plead guilty without a full trial. The provision could permit military prosecutors to avoid airing the details of […]
Deadly Clashes in Peru’s Amazon
June 6th, 2009Via: BBC: At least 31 people have died in clashes in Peru between the security forces and indigenous people in the Amazon region. Those killed included at least 22 tribesmen and nine policemen. The violence took place as security forces tried to end a road blockade. There have been fuel and transport blockades in Peru’s […]
Fisk: “I suspect that what the Arab world wants to hear is that Obama will take his soldiers out of Muslim lands.”
June 5th, 2009Via: Independent: More and more, it looks like the same old melody that Bush’s lads used to sing. We’re not against the Muslim world. In fact, we are positively for it. We want you to have democracy, up to a point. We love Arab “moderates” and we want to reach out to you and be […]
And Now… Flu Vaccines in Corn
May 31st, 2009Via: Meat and Poultry: Iowa State University researchers are putting flu vaccines into the genetic makeup of corn, which may someday allow pigs and humans to get a flu vaccination simply by eating corn or corn products. “We’re trying to figure out which genes from the swine influenza virus to incorporate into corn so those […]
A Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse Squeaks
May 31st, 2009Via: New York Times: People have a deep desire to communicate with animals, as is evident from the way they converse with their dogs, enjoy myths about talking animals or devote lifetimes to teaching chimpanzees how to speak. A delicate, if tiny, step has now been taken toward the real thing: the creation of a […]
Eve Ensler Calls for Rape-Free Cellphones
May 29th, 2009Nokia, Apple, Motorola and Samsung do not source coltan from Congo. Via: All Things Digital: On May 13, 2009, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing called “Confronting Rape and Other Forms of Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones.” Its purpose: to end the use of rape as a weapon of war in the […]
Sri Lankan Government May Have Killed Twenty Thousand Civilians
May 29th, 2009Via: Times Online: Sri Lanka’s Government has consistently denied killing civilians in the battle to wipe out the Tamil Tigers and blamed the rebels for any deaths. It hailed the vote by the council as a vindication of its action. An investigation by The Times into Sri Lanka’s civilian casualties, however — which was conducted […]
