Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
UK Police: Designate Children as Pre Criminals Based on DNA
March 17th, 2008Via: Guardian: Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life, according to Britain’s most senior police forensics expert. Gary Pugh, director of forensic sciences at Scotland Yard and the new DNA spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), said […]
U.S. Drops China from List of 10 Worst Rights Violators
March 15th, 2008What’s more absurd, the fact that China isn’t on the list, or that the U.S. issues such a list in the first place? More than a million Iraqis have died since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. I wonder if that figures into the report at all… Via: IHT: The announcement that the U.S. […]
Bush Vetoes U.S. Bill Outlawing CIA Waterboarding
March 9th, 2008Enemy collaborator/enabler Democrats keep funding it all. Via: Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush on Saturday vetoed legislation passed by Congress that would have banned the CIA from using waterboarding and other controversial interrogation techniques. Lawmakers included the anti-torture measure in a broader bill authorizing U.S. intelligence activities. “Because the danger remains, we need to […]
UK: Court Gags Ex-SAS Man Who Made Torture Claims
March 3rd, 2008Via: Guardian: A former SAS soldier was served with a high court order yesterday preventing him from making fresh disclosures about how hundreds of Iraqis and Afghans captured by British and American special forces were rendered to prisons where they faced torture. Ben Griffin could be jailed if he makes further disclosures about how people […]
HEAVY FIGHTING IN GAZA; ISRAEL SLAUGHTERS DOZENS OF CIVILIANS
March 2nd, 2008Via: Reuters: Israeli forces killed 61 people in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, the bloodiest day for Palestinians since an uprising against Israeli occupation began in 2000. Almost half the dead were civilians, including children. Israel, which lost two soldiers, seemed ready to press home its fiercest air and ground assault since it pulled troops […]
Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court
February 28th, 2008Via: Huffington Post: After years of insisting there is no evidence to link vaccines with the onset of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the US government has quietly conceded a vaccine-autism case in the Court of Federal Claims. The unprecedented concession was filed on November 9, and sealed to protect the plaintiff’s identify. It was obtained […]
Guatemala to Expose Army Torture Files
February 26th, 2008Somehow, the Reuters article below doesn’t mention the CIA even once… As usual, the reader needs to look elsewhere for the basic, contextual facts: Jennifer K. Harbury Knows American Torture Starts at the Top, and It Has for Decades: …my husband had indeed been captured alive, had been held for two and a half years […]
UK Apology Over Rendition Flights
February 22nd, 2008* roll eyes * Via: BBC: David Miliband has admitted two US ‘extraordinary rendition’ flights landed on UK territory in 2002. The foreign secretary said in both cases US planes refuelled on the UK dependent territory of Diego Garcia. He said he was “very sorry” to have to say that previous denials made in “good […]
Largest Meat Recall in U.S. History
February 18th, 2008Which phrase is more bone chilling? Downer cattle, or federal nutrition program? Via: Reuters: A California meatpacker accused of animal cruelty is making the largest U.S. meat recall on record — 143 million lbs, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Sunday. Most of the meat, raw and frozen beef products, probably has already been consumed, […]
22,000 Died Amid Delayed Bayer Drug Recall
February 18th, 2008Via: Reuters: The lives of 22,000 patients could have been saved if U.S. regulators had been quicker to remove a Bayer AG drug used to stem bleeding during open heart surgery, according to a medical researcher interviewed by CBS Television’s 60 Minutes program. The drug Trasylol was withdrawn in November at the request of the […]
