Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
Obama Exempts CIA Torture Staff from Prosecution
April 17th, 2009Just following orders. Via: BBC: US President Barack Obama says CIA agents who used harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects during the Bush era will not be prosecuted. Mr Obama banned the use of methods such as sleep deprivation and simulated drowning in his first week in office. He has now released four memos detailing […]
Israeli Military’s 60-Tonne Robot Bulldozer Force to Double
April 13th, 2009Via: Jerusalem Post: The IDF Ground Forces Command plans to double the number of unmanned D9 armored bulldozers in the Engineering Corps arsenal after the vehicle provided exceptional results during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip in January. The unmanned version of the D9 bulldozer – called “Black Thunder” – was developed several years […]
“The Obama DOJ is now squarely to the Right of an extremely conservative, pro-executive-power, Bush 43-appointed judge on issues of executive power and due-process-less detentions.”
April 13th, 2009Via: Salon: It was once the case under the Bush administration that the U.S. would abduct people from around the world, accuse them of being Terrorists, ship them to Guantanamo, and then keep them there for as long as we wanted without offering them any real due process to contest the accusations against them. That […]
Ireland: Catholic Priests Abused Thousands of Youngsters from 1975 to 2004
April 10th, 20091975 to 2004? This must be the abridged version. Via: AP: The Archbishop of Dublin said Thursday that an upcoming report on child sexual abuse involving Catholic priests will likely reveal that thousands of youngsters were abused from 1975 to 2004. The report “will shock us all,” said Diarmuid Martin, during Mass at Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral. […]
150,000 People in the U.S. Have Been Implanted with Defective Medtronic Defibrillator Cables
April 7th, 2009If you think that Medtronic is going to get nailed to the wall with endless lawsuits over this… Guess again! Via: New York Times: Consider the Sprint Fidelis, a heart defibrillator cable. In 2007 its maker, Medtronic, stopped selling it after five patients who had the cables died. But only now is the full scope […]
Pfizer to Pay £50 Million After Deaths of Nigerian Children in Drug Trial Experiment
April 7th, 2009Via: Independent: A divorce case was all that passed for excitement at Richard P Altschuler’s “kinda small” lawyer’s office in West Haven, Connecticut, when the phone rang nine years ago. On the other end of the line, a world away in the heat of Nigeria, was Etigwe Uwo, a young lawyer with “an incredible story […]
Thousands Flee Bomb Attacks by U.S. Drones
April 6th, 2009Via: Times: AMERICAN drone attacks on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan are causing a massive humanitarian emergency, Pakistani officials claimed after a new attack yesterday killed 13 people. The dead and injured included foreign militants, but women and children were also killed when two missiles hit a house in the village of Data Khel, […]
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
April 5th, 2009Via: Global Research: We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples we have studied of the dust produced by the destruction of the World Trade Center. Examination of four of these samples, collected from separate sites, is reported in this paper. These red/gray chips show marked similarities in all four samples. One sample […]
Rocket Fuel Chemical Found in Baby Formula
April 5th, 2009The unnecessary feeding of formula to infants amounts to yet another corporate social engineering atrocity. Here is a list of conditions that are more likely to affect formula fed babies. The Wikipedia page for infant formula contains bibliographic information on each of these: Digestive/gastrointestinal issues * Appendicitis * Constipation and Anal fissures * Diarrhea * […]
Hamid Karzai Signs Law ‘Legalising Rape in Marriage’
April 1st, 2009Via: Telegraph: President Hamid Karzai has signed a law the UN says legalises rape in marriage and prevents women from leaving the house without permission. The law, which has not been publicly released, is believed to state women can only seek work, education or doctor’s appointments with their husband’s permission. Only fathers and grandfathers are […]
