Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
Italy: Gypsy Vaccination Scheme Starts
March 3rd, 2009Via: Financial Times: Italy’s Red Cross has launched its biggest vaccination programme since the second world war, with the goal of immunising several thousand gypsy children living in camps around Rome. The operation began at Casilino 900, a camp on the eastern outskirts of the capital that is believed to be one of the largest […]
Scientists Make HIV Strain That Can Infect Monkeys
March 3rd, 2009My commentary consists of two links: 1. The AIDS conspiracy (If this is new to you, prepare to lose many hours.) and 2. Dr. Mary’s Monkey by Edward T. Haslam Via: Reuters: Scientists have created a strain of the human AIDS virus able to infect and multiply in monkeys in a step toward testing future […]
CIA Destroyed 92 Interrogation Tapes, Probe Says
March 3rd, 2009Duh. Something to cleanse your news-not-news palette with this morning. Via: Washington Post: The CIA got rid of 92 videotapes depicting the harsh interrogations and confinement of “high value” al-Qaeda suspects, government lawyers disclosed yesterday, as a long-running criminal probe of the tapes’ destruction inched toward a conclusion that is not expected to result in […]
Why Do 160,000 Cats Each Year in the USA Develop Terminal Cancer at Their Vaccine Injection Sites
March 2nd, 2009I can’t say much because New Zealand is a small, small, impossibly small village, but let’s just say that we know veterinarians who DO NOT give multiple vaccinations to animals. These veterinarians have small children. You can do the math, I’m sure. Via: Dogsadversereactions: A team at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine conducted several […]
Senate Panel to Examine CIA Detainee Handling
February 27th, 2009Ahh yes, from the people who fed you box cutters and Building 7: The Authoritative Account of Bush’s Atrocities… Give me a f*cking break already. Via: Washington Post: The Senate intelligence committee is planning an unprecedented review of the CIA’s handling of captured terrorist suspects, drawing back the curtain for the first time on the […]
CIA Signals Continuity With Bush Era
February 26th, 2009Change. Via: Wall Street Journal: The Central Intelligence Agency’s new director outlined spy policies Wednesday, including an aggressive campaign in Pakistan, that underscored considerable continuity with the Bush administration. CIA Director Leon Panetta, in his first meeting with reporters, said the agency will continue to carry out drone attacks on militants in Pakistan. He also […]
The Anti-Bono: Dambisa Moyo and “Dead Aid”
February 25th, 2009Via: New York Times: Q: As a native of Zambia with advanced degrees in public policy and economics from Harvard and Oxford, you are about to publish an attack on Western aid to Africa and its recent glamorization by celebrities. “Dead Aid,” as your book is called, is particularly hard on rock stars. Have you […]
Rural Zimbabweans Are Desperately Panning for Gold Powder to Ward Off Starvation
February 15th, 2009Why don’t people grow potatoes? Why don’t they grow beans? Wouldn’t that be easier than panning for gold all day to buy industrial food? In this video, I saw dirt, ruminant animals, water, and plenty of biomass that could be turned into compost. People had shovels… Yet, starvation is setting in. I don’t understand why […]
Blackwater Worldwide Changes Its Name to Xe; Same Mercenaries, but Now with More “Aviation Support”
February 14th, 2009Blackwater has probably been used for U.S. Government narcotics trafficking operations before, but it looks like that is going to be a major component of their business going forward. Note the phrase “aviation support” in the story below. Aviation support is synonymous with narcotics trafficking. If you read, Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA, this […]
Unredacted Documents Reveal Prisoners Tortured to Death
February 13th, 2009Via: RawStory: The American Civil Liberties Union has released previously classified excerpts of a government report on harsh interrogation techniques used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. These previously unreported pages detail repeated use of “abusive” behavior, even to the point of prisoner deaths. The documents, obtained by the ACLU under a Freedom of Information […]
