Archive for July, 2008
China Inspired Interrogations at Guantánamo
July 2nd, 2008Via: IHT: The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.” What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart […]
State-Sponsored Terror: British and American Black Ops in Iraq
July 1st, 2008This is an excellent review of P2OG over the years. Many of the story references will be familiar to Cryptogon readers. Via: Global Research: In 2002, the Pentagon’s Defense Science Board (DSB) conducted a “Summer Study on Special Operations and Joint Forces in Support of Countering Terrorism,” portions of which were leaked to the Federation […]
Thieves Stealing Manhole Covers
July 1st, 2008Via: USA Today: Cities and counties are battling manhole-cover thefts, a crime spree that police tie to the weak economy. Hundreds of 200-pound covers have disappeared in three months in California, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Georgia as scrap metal prices pop up. “It’s a sign of the times,” says Sgt. Jay Baker of the Cherokee […]
Factories Hit Worldwide as Commodity Prices Soar
July 1st, 2008Via: Reuters / Guardian: Soaring commodity costs are denting manufacturing activity in Asia and Europe and the outlook looks bleak as new orders drop off in the face of rising prices, surveys showed on Tuesday. Manufacturing activity in the euro zone contracted in June for the first time in three years while business confidence in […]
Olympic Nightmare: A Red Tide in the Yellow Sea
July 1st, 2008Serfs up! Via: IHT: With less than six weeks before it plays host to the Olympic sailing regatta, the city of Qingdao has mobilized thousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean up an algae bloom that is choking large stretches of the coastline and threatening to impede the Olympic competition. Local […]
