Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S. Government, Halliburton/KBR
December 11th, 2007Via: ABC News: A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident. Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under […]
Atrocities: Israeli Minister Cancels London Trip on Arrest Fears
December 9th, 2007Via: AFP: Israeli Public Security Minister Avi Dichter has cancelled a trip to Britain over concerns he could be arrested on war crimes allegations, his spokesman said on Thursday. “Minister Dichter has cancelled this trip following threats of him being arrested in Great Britain. This is an intolerable situation,” Barak Sari said. Dichter was due […]
CIA Destroyed Videotapes of Torture Sessions
December 7th, 2007Here’s one for your no-shit-Sherlock file folder. But don’t expect the Associated Press to mention that these tapes would have been prima facie evidence of atrocities, for which the perpetrators might have faced trial under international law. Via: AP: The CIA videotaped its interrogations of two top terror suspects in 2002 and destroyed the tapes […]
Pandora’s Pantry
December 3rd, 2007Via: Celsias: Monsanto’s key selling point for Roundup Ready seeds has been to tell farmers that one or two good dousings with Roundup will solve all their weed problems. The corporation placed print ads telling farmers that Roundup was “the only weed control you’ll ever need,†even while, in the words of University of California […]
U.S. Says it has Right to Kidnap British Citizens
December 3rd, 2007Via: Times: AMERICA has told Britain that it can “kidnap†British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States. A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it. The […]
Facing Jail and Fines, Parents Summoned to Court to Have Children Vaccinated
November 22nd, 2007The part I like is that the parents of 900 students ignored this absurd fascist decree. Via: Baltimore Sun: Scores of grumbling parents facing a threat of jail lined up at a courthouse today to either prove that their school-age kids already had their required vaccinations or see that the youngsters submitted to the needle. […]
U.S. Military Demands Return of Signing Bonuses from Wounded Personnel
November 21st, 2007Via: kdka.com: The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments. To get people to sign up, the military gives enlistment bonuses up to $30,000 in some cases. Now men and women who have lost arms, legs, eyesight, hearing and […]
Wal-Mart Seizes Accident Settlement from Former Employee
November 21st, 2007Always low prices. Via: Wall Street Journal: A collision with a semi-trailer truck seven years ago left 52-year-old Deborah Shank permanently brain-damaged and in a wheelchair. Her husband, Jim, and three sons found a small source of solace: a $700,000 accident settlement from the trucking company involved. After legal fees and other expenses, the remaining […]
Military Releases Heavily Redacted Report on Directed Energy Weapon Accident
November 10th, 2007Don’t microwave me, bro! Via: Wired: Seven months after an airman was burned in a test of the nonlethal heat beam, the Air Force has released a heavily redacted version of the mishap report that reveals few details about what happened. The military has bent over backwards to demonstrate to the public that the Active […]
China: Birth Defects Soar Due to Pollution
November 1st, 2007These are just the numbers released by the diabolical Chinese regime. What are the real numbers!? Via: Guardian / Reuters: Birth defects in Chinese infants have soared nearly 40 percent since 2001, a government report said, and officials linked the rise to China’s worsening environmental degradation. The rate of defects had risen from 104.9 per […]
