Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
Orange Drinks with 300 Times More Pesticide than Tap Water
January 5th, 2009Don’t forget that the sodium benzoate in these drinks causes severe damage to mitochondria. Via: Daily Mail: Fizzy drinks sold by Coca-Cola in Britain have been found to contain pesticides at up to 300 times the level allowed in tap or bottled water. A worldwide study found pesticide levels in orange and lemon drinks sold […]
Judge Rejects Class-Action Status in FEMA Trailer Suits
December 31st, 2008Imagine my shock. The children who spent time in these trailers have been murdered, they just aren’t dead yet. See: Children in Katrina Trailers May Face Lifelong Ailments FEMA Trailer Manufacturers Knew About Formaldehyde, Findings Went Undisclosed Via: AP: A federal judge on Monday refused to grant class-action status to lawsuits claiming that thousands of […]
Which Texan Was Going to Buy a Young Girl for Three Hundred Thousand Dollars?
December 30th, 2008I used to think that I could mentally handle any subject matter, no matter how horrible. What could be worse than what happened to Native Americans? The Soviet Union under Stalin and then what the Russians went through during World War II (estimates of the number of dead vary by millions)? The extermination programs of […]
Israel’s Gaza Bombings a ‘Crime Against Humanity’
December 29th, 2008Via: The Age: ISRAEL’S bombing of the Gaza Strip is a massive violation of international law because it is punishing an entire population for the actions of a few. That is the assessment of the United Nations regional envoy, Professor Richard Falk. Yesterday, Professor Falk accused Israel of targeting civilians and of a disproportionate response […]
Rice: People Will Soon Thank Bush for What He’s Done
December 29th, 2008Bitch, please. Via: CNN: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that despite President Bush’s low approval ratings, people will soon “start to thank this president for what he’s done.” “So we can sit here and talk about the long record, but what I would say to you is that this president has faced tougher circumstances […]
North Carolina Panel Recommends Money for Eugenics Victims
December 28th, 2008Via: AP: North Carolina lawmakers pushed Thursday to offer reparations to thousands of victims of a forced sterilization program now recognized as a shameful part of U.S. history. A state House panel recommended the state give $20,000 to victims of the eugenics program, which sterilized about 7,600 people between 1929 and 1975 who were considered […]
CIA Buys Off Afghan Warlords with Viagra
December 27th, 2008The Washington Post didn’t interview any of the child brides/rape victims for this story. Via: Washington Post: The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and his bearded face bore the creases of a man burdened with duties as tribal patriarch and husband to four younger women. His visitor, a CIA officer, saw an […]
Toxic Ash Pond Collapses in Tennessee
December 25th, 2008This should do wonders for water quality in the region. Via: Scientific American: The residue of millions of tons of coal burning at Kingston Fossil power plant in the Watts Bar Reservoir in Tennessee burst the bounds of the pond in which it was contained, burying as many as 400 acres of land in up […]
Israeli Blockade ‘Forces Palestinians to Search Rubbish Dumps for Food’
December 21st, 2008Via: Guardian: Impoverished Palestinians on the Gaza Strip are being forced to scavenge for food on rubbish dumps to survive as Israel’s economic blockade risks causing irreversible damage, according to international observers. Figures released last week by the UN Relief and Works Agency reveal that the economic blockade imposed by Israel on Gaza in July […]
Change We Can Believe In: Obama Chooses Monsanto Creature, Tom Vilsack, for Secretary of Agriculture
December 18th, 2008The fever dream reality of the Obama hive mind goes something like this: Obama is just pretending to be evil so that he can get into power, but then the Hope and Change, etc. will flow. —The Cognitive Mechanism Behind Political Fundamentalism… And Probably Lots of Other Fundamentalisms We have just lost cabin pressure, and […]
